The Moon in Lithuanian Folk Tradition
The Moon in Lithuanian Folk Tradition

Summary/Abstract: The paper is an attempt to summarize the available Lithuanian folkknowledge about the Moon. The ethnoastronomical materials that have been collected during expeditions since 1988 as well as ethnographic and folklore archive data in written sources are used in this work. Lithuanian ethnographical material gives far more information about the Moon (terms,narratives, folklore, ethnocosmography, popular meteorology, relics of lunar calendar, folk belief, etc.) than about other heavenly bodies.

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