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“There is a trick invented by Pythagoras which is performed in the following manner: the moon being at the full, someone writes with blood on a looking glass anything he has a mind to; then, having given notice of it to another person, he stands behind that other and turns towards the moon the letters written in the glass. The other, looking fixedly on the shining orb, reads in it all that is written on the mirror as if it were written on the moon.”
― The Old Lore of the Moon: Lunar Folklore & Folk Wisdom
― The Old Lore of the Moon: Lunar Folklore & Folk Wisdom
“Of the beating kettles, basons, and other brazen vessels used by the ancients when the moone was eclipsed (which they did to drown the charms of witches, that the moon might not hear them, and so be drawne from her sphere as they suppos’d), I shall not need to speake, being a thing so generally knowne…”
― The Old Lore of the Moon: Lunar Folklore & Folk Wisdom
― The Old Lore of the Moon: Lunar Folklore & Folk Wisdom
“Two hundred years ago, a wise man witnessed a wonderful phenomenon in the moon: he actually beheld a live elephant there--but the unbelieving have since made all manner of fun at the good knight's expense. Take the following burlesque of this celebrated discovery as an instance. "Sir Paul Neal, a conceited virtuoso of the seventeenth century, gave out that he had discovered 'an elephant in the moon.' It turned out that a mouse had crept into his telescope, which had been mistaken for an elephant in the moon." Well, we concede that an elephant and a mouse are very much alike.”
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