Note 416 — Chapter V · LUNAR SUPERSTITIONS AND FESTIVALS
Reading edition
H. A. Hazen, in Journal of American Folk-lore, 1900, xiii, 192. American folklore contains the injunction never to kill cattle or pigs, or even wild game, by the “dark of the moon”; it is most unlucky, and the meat will come to no good (Bergen, Current Superstitions, p. 121).