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MOON RAYS

SISTER MARY EDMUND, WHO COMES FROM NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA,
SAID THAT IT IS A BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD SLEEP IN THE
DIRECT RAYS OF THE MOON, THEN SHE RECALLED THE INCIDENT,
WHERE A WOMAN HAD DONE THIS REPEATEDLY AND THE MUSCLES IN HER
FACE DREW UP. PEOPLE BELIEVED THIS WAS DUE TO THE POWER OF
THE MOON.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed
BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Moon
BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness

Date learned: 08-00-1968

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