Show THE of superstitions by H KINQ SHINGLING BY THE MOON MANY people believe that you should shingle your root when the moon Is on alie wane the shingles put on at that time will lay flat go dotan as they say while laid when the moon Is on the increase are liable to warp and curl ap this superstition has been found existing in this country by the american folk lore society and Is another case of the into our own times of the primitive doctrine of lunar sympathy which considered both human acts and material things as sympathetically affected by the waxing and waning of the moon when the moon Is wax ing it gradually increases itself from a thin line into a round ball and shingles will try to do the same whereas when it Is on the wane it goes through an opposite process and shingles laid on are correspondingly influenced it will be noted that by the doctrine of lunar sympathy Sim pathy that sympathy Is exerted upon material things in a determinate manner at some particular and crucial time of the objects existence bhea the timber Is cut when the seed Is planted when the shingle Is laid 0 by mcclure newspaper syndicate |