If the moon changes on a Sunday there will be a flood before the month is out.
A Saturday moon, if it comes once in seven years, comes too soon.
A fog and a small moon bring an easterly wind soon.
In the waning of the moon,
Cloudy morning: fair afternoon.
Pale moon doth rain; red moon doth blow,
White moon doth neither rain nor snow.
When the moon's halo is far, the storm is n'ar (near).
When the moon's halo is n'ar, the storm is far.
It has long been a custom for girls to go to the nearest stile, to turn their back on the first new moon after Midsummer and to chant these verses: