Part One – Life | 32 See further Vol . 3, p . 345, note 1, that Easterners cover head and face when sleeping, especially in the open air and moonlight . I have also noted that Lynn thorndike, in his AHistory of Magic and Experimental Science, Vol . VIII, New York 1958, p . 291, calls our attention to antoine le Grand’s Curious Scrutinizer of Hidden Things of Nature ( Curiosus verum abditarum naturaeque arcanorum perscrutator… Norimberga 1681, p . who, though earlier was said to have denied the influence of the moon, ) 237 now assented that it was fatal for a man to sleep in moonshine . More recently I came across Hutton Webster’s book Rest Days : The Christian Sunday, the Jewish Sabbath, and their Historical and Anthropological Prototypes, New York 1916, and on pp . 124 - 126 I found a considerable body of information on the dangers of moonlight, which I shall cite in full . He begins by citing albiruni : “that the moon has certain effects on moist substances, that they are apparently ...
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