Yesterday, the 18th we had the first new moon of 2026 and the first new moon of the year was very useful in the past for girls wanting to find out who they would marry.....
On the evening of the January new moon sit on a gate or across a stile, look at the moon and repeat:
All hail to the moon, all hail to thee, I prithee good moon reveal to me this night who my husband should be.
After that they would go home and straight to bed and their intended would be revealed in their dreams and apparently putting a sprig of oregano under the pillow would make the dreams clearer.
Did girls really do this?
I do wonder where some of these old sayings come from.
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