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snow moon
Posted By: william rutledge
Date: Tuesday, 18 February 2003, at 3:32 p.m.
From space.com (see link below for complete article) by Joe Rao (who is a frequent presenter at the Natural History Museum).
As most people know, Native Americans had different names for the different full moons for the year, those of the Algonquin tribes being the most common in the northeast. (Today, the most well known of all the full-moon names is the Harvest Moon.)
Well, lo-and-behold, the last full moon, on February 16th, was the Snow Moon. So-called because it usually accompanies the heaviest snows of the winter. Hunting was also very difficult, and hence to some Native American tribes this was the Full Hunger Moon.
So... superstition or no?
Burr
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william rutledge -- Tuesday, 18 February 2003, at 3:32 p.m.
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TRFKANF -- Tuesday, 18 February 2003, at 5:21 p.m.
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