Note 15 — Letters from Father Mateo Gisbert to the Reverend Fathers and Brothers of Veruela
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Once when there was an eclipse of the moon, the Moros of Pasanjan began to make a great racket with their culintíngans and other things. When they were asked why they made so much noise, they answered that it was in order to scare the serpent which was eating the moon.15