Historical_Exchange t1_jbdbu3n wrote
Reply to comment by Redbelly98 in hi, my mom keeps saying the moon is upsidedown. by ilysmmate
No lunatic would be right. Ancient Greeks used to believe that the changing phases of the moon caused epilepsy among other conditions. This idea then morphed in to a general fear that the moon could cause madness, a belief that carried from the dark ages all the way up until the 1700's OP's mum.
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