In Mexico it is believed that exposure of a pregnant woman to an eclipse will cause her infant to have a cleft lip or palate. Read The Rest »

The Han people have a custom that a pregnant woman is not allowed to eat rabbit meat for fear that the child will be born with a harelip.

A superstition observed among Mexican-Americans involving pregnancy - a pregnant woman who goes out during a full moon or lunar eclipse will give birth to a baby with a harelip or with the features of a wolf. Read The Rest »

From Claude Levi-Strauss' book 'Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture:

... a puzzling observation recorded by a Spanish missionary in Peru, Father P.J. de Arrigia, at the end of the sixteenth century, and published in his 'Extirpacion de la Idolatria del Peru' (Lima 1621). Read The Rest »

The fable which follows is entitled "From an original manuscript in English, by Mr. John Priestly, in Sir G. Grey's library."

"The moon, on one occasion, sent the hare to the earth to inform men that as she (the moon) died away and rose again, so mankind should die and rise again. Read The Rest »