MAN IN THE MOON
OLD LEGENDS Tn certain races the man in the moon is a being who. by reason of great wisdom, was transferred to the moon, from which he was able to sec everything that occurred. To the Chinese he is Yue-tao, who arranges all marriages. Among the old Red Indian tribes the medicine men received thdr power by departing into the middle of a lake ami holding consultation with the man in the moon. The German version deals with a peasant who was reprimanded by an angel for gathering faggots on a Sunday. He replied: “Sunday on earth or Monday in heaven, it is all the same to me.” For this he was sent to an eternal moon day in heaven. The earliest English version appears in the writings of a St. Albans monk. Here it was Moses who found a man
gathering sticks on the Sabbath and expelled him to the moon. In France the man in the moon becomes Judas Iscariot, and the wood is a load he must always carry as a punishment.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19858, 4 June 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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