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Show Various Ideas as to Spots on Foon's Facs There exist In various parts of the world curious Idca3 regarding the dark spots in the moon's disk. In the eastern part of Asia the spots are believed to be a rabbit or a hare. The Chinese, in particular, regard 'them as a hare sitting up and pounding pound-ing rice In a mortar. Siamese take the same-view. Others see in the moon a man and woman working in a field. ! Curiously, the North American Indians In-dians have almost the same superstition super-stition as the Chinese. On old monuments monu-ments In Central America the moon .appears as n Jug or vessel, out of jwhlch an animal like a rabbit is Jumping. Jump-ing. South American Indians, on the other hund, believe that a girl, who had fallen in Inve with the moon, sprang toward It, was caught and kept by it, and that It Is her figure which is seen on the moon's face. Samoa Islanders regard the spots as representing a woman carrying a child. Other Southern peoples have similar beliefs, the woman and child sometimes being altered Into an old woman bearing a burden on her back. |