Moon Superstitions

Lunar divination is still popularly practiced in civilized countries. The central principle of moon adoration is to be discovered in the effect still ascribed to the apparent variations of the luminary. When it increases, the principal of growth is supposed to prevail, and conversely. For this reason the crescent was a igned as the emblem of the godde es of growth, and this ornament pa ed from Roman divinities to the Virgin, who is frequently represented standing upon the crescent moon. See MAN IN THE MOON. Moonworts. Fern-like plants of the genus Botrychium , natural family Ophioglo aceæ , including several species, of Moorcroft, WILLIAM, ab.1770-1825. English explorer in n. India and Bokhara from 1808. Travels , 1841.