{"collection":"Astrology","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_astro_ml_ml16_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_astro_ml_ml16_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_astro_ml_ml16_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/astro/ml/ml16.htm","summary":"There are a few phosphorescent fancies about the moon, like ignes fatui,\n\"Dancing in murky night o'er fen and lake,\"\nwhich we may dispose of in a section by themselves. Those of them that are mythical are too evanescent to become full-grown myths; and those which are religious are too volatile to remain in the solution or salt of any bottled creed. Like the wandering lights of the Russians, answering to our will-o'-the-wisp, they are the souls of still-born children.","tags":["Lunar Folklore","Moon Mythology","Victorian Astronomy Lore"],"text":null,"title":"Moon Lore: Moon Superstitions: II. Lunar Fancies","tradition":"Astrology","translated_text":null,"word_count":1933}