Note 408 — Chapter V · LUNAR SUPERSTITIONS AND FESTIVALS
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Gengnagel, “Volksglaube und Wahrsagerei an der Westküste Indiens,” Ausland, 1891, lxiv, 871 sq. Another observer declares that if a cow calves on the new-moon day, her milk, it is believed, will kill the owner (P. Kershasp, “Some Superstitions prevailing among the Canarese-speaking People of Southern India,” Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, vii, 84).