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“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…”

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The Old Lore of the Moon: Lunar Folklore & Folk Wisdom

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Timothy Harley

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