Millard County Chronicle | 1934-12-27 | Page 4 | Moon is Blamed for Many Impossible Afflictions

moon Is blamed for many impossible afflictions TI e idea that tl e n oon upsets wireless programs woul I 1 be more in I 1 beep im ln with its old le te than the dis covery of its usef ill ih es to fishermen bior most of the than things s our ancestors believed about the moon were pretty unpleasant says answers magazine they thought for instance that to sleep in the moon s rays wis was to invite blindness or oti er troi bles and coined the word mord moonstruck to describe alose 0 ose who were mere mentally deranged lunatic also comes from the latin woid meaning moon and wh ie le tl ey also believed la in the moon s influence on fish their view was mas much nore n ore pe pessimistic than that of the fisheries experts they thought that at certain times the moon made fish unfit for food the moon in short was rea math ath a good deal of suspicion hips haps this was partly due to its assoni atlon with black magic and paganism the witches believed that the herbs which they used in their incantations or from which they brewed poisons to 1111 their enem es had to be gathered while the moonbeams fell on them