SHOOTING STARS
Shooting stars were once fabled, as comets were, to presage disaster. In Shakespeare's "Hamlet," for instance, you will find:— "A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman
streets; As stars with trains of fire and dews
of blood, Disasters in the sun." The Arabs considered that shooting stars were firebrands hurled by the angels against the inquisitive genii who are for ever climbing on the constellations in order to peep into heaven. One strange old belief was that any wish during the actual shoot of a star would be fulfilled.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 8 December 1930, Page 3
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106SHOOTING STARS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 8 December 1930, Page 3
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