Note 374 — Chapter V · LUNAR SUPERSTITIONS AND FESTIVALS
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Roscher, Über Selene und Verwandtes, pp. 49 sqq., 61-67. The New Zealanders believed that it was in the night that everything grew (R. Taylor, Te Ika A Maui, London, 1855, p. 175). The single Old Testament passage which may possibly embody a like conception is Deuteronomy, xxxiii, 14: “and for the precious things put forth by the moon.” See W. von Baudissin, Jahve et Moloch, Leipzig, 1874, p. 24.