What are the beliefs of eclipse?

Answer 1

While there are variations, sometimes dramatic variations, between cultures in terms of the stories told about what caused solar eclipses, the most common was that the sun was being devoured and that loud noises, chants, songs and so on would frighten the monster away.

Answer 2

The lunar eclipse is when the moon moves precisely behind the world casting a shadow across the moon. There are many superstitions regarding a lunar eclipse one is an eclipse unlucky. A solar eclipse happens when the moon obstructs the sun, casting a shadow across the sun. There are many superstitions regarding a solar eclipse one is that the sun has been digested by beasts.

Answer 3

After circumcision, a boy should not step on a mortar or pestle; otherwise, his organ will grow as big as these.

• Sleeping after taking a bath during daytime or at night will result in blindness.
• A menstruating woman should not eat sweets lest blood flow stop and cause illness or death.
• Let a dog lick your wounds, and the wounds will be healed.
• Sleeping with wet hair makes one crazy.
• When one is wounded during high tide, much blood will ooze out.
• When one is sick with smallpox, he must be given all the things he wishes; otherwise he will die.
• The successive birth of four children of the same sex is believed to endanger the life of the parent of the same sex.
• Children are advised not to bite banana leaves, as this is believed to cause tooth decay.
• One should not eat mollusks when he has wounds, otherwise, his wounds will grow big.
• A sick person is always believed to grow worse when the moon is full. If the patient does not recover before one lunar month has elapsed and the moon once more assumes this phase, the case is considered hopeless.
• Taking a bath at night will cause anemia or low blood pressure.
• Taking a bath on New Year's Day and/or Good Friday will cause one to get sick.
• If the family is eating and a member arrives, he is not permitted to join the others in the meal, for if this rule is violated and a member of the household becomes ill, the others may become ill too.
• Menstruating girls should not eat papaya to avoid whitish blood, nor liver or blood, as they will cause a strong flow.
• Asthma can be cured by putting a cat near the throat and the chest and at the same time reciting a prayer.
• Sore eyes can be cured by washing the eyes with the first urine early in the morning.
• A child who plays with fallen unripe coconuts will suffer body swelling.
• Parents who despise ugly children will bear an ugly child.
• Parents who despise or laugh at twins will have twins.

Answer 4

Ancient Chinese civilizations once believed the moon was battling a dragon during a lunar eclipse. The peoples of this time would make as much noise as one possible could through the entire event in order to scare away the dragon, so that it could not devour the moon. This is still a tradition as recent as today, though the beliefs have probably changed.

The peoples of India, still to this day, will hide inside during a eclipsed out of fear that the moon allows bad rays to strike the Earth.

Answer 5

The scientific explanation of a solar eclipse is that it is the shadow falling on the earth when the moon comes directly between the sun and the earth.

There are nearly as many different folk beliefs about solar eclipse as there are non-technological cultures. Many relate to a demon devouring the sun until driven away, or to divine displeasure being made manifest by the removal of the sun.

Answer 6

Most un educated medieval people thought that god was angry and that the world was going to end