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Rh ing upon her Back, without he firt pits upon her Fingers, and rubs her Belly with it.

For the ame Reaon the young Maids are afraid to tare long at the Moon, imagining they might get a Child by the Bargain. During the Eclipe of the Sun no Man dare tir out of the Houe; and likewie, when the Moon is ecliped, no Women goes abroad, becaue they fancy, that both hate the Sex of the other. The Sun for Joy puts on her Pendants, or the Reaon of which they take to be the Hatred he bears againt her Brother, which alo reaches to his Sex. As on the contrary, the Greenland Women wear their Pendants at the Birth of a Boy, becaue o ueful a Creature is come into the World. Their Notion about the Stars is, that ome of them have been Men, and other different orts of Animals and Fihes. The faint Light of ome Stars they attribute to their eating the Kidney; and Brightnes of others, to their feeding upon Liver. They give alo Names to many Stars and Contellations, viz.