A BIT OF ASTROLOGY. It may be surprising to such per- sons as have given very little attention to the subject to find that considerable superstition still exists among even the enlfghtened people of Eastern Pennsylvania. Signs of the moon are observed not only in the planting of fence-posts, but

%20Project/Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Sener, Samuel Miller, 1855-1911. Title: Local superstitions / by S. M. Sener, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Superstition. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1904/1905

the populace of that region, there still lingered more or less of the mediaeval superstition which had been rampant in central Europe for ages. The great majority of these emigrants were of the peasant class, who came here not only to escape from religious persecu- tion, but with the avowed purpose of