Interestingly these dates also coincide with the phases of the moon which existed in 1888, the first and last murders, Tabram and Kelly, were both committed on the exact full and half moon phases of their month. The four remaining murders were all carried out two days before a moon phase. ... This ritual, once completed gives the individual, among other things, 'favour in the sight of the Old Ones when They once more walk the Earth' and a cloak of invisibility or immunity from discovery. ... On the 30th of September there were two murders, Stride and Eddowes, Stride however was not a...

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"Otherwise" Commentary "Otherwise" by Cilla McQueen is a two-stanza poem that hauntingly presents the agony of being in a long-distance relationship in which irreconcilable differences of opinion augment the actual physical distance between the two. ... Below the equator, water going down a drain spirals opposite to draining water above the equator, and apparently a waning moon in the North would be a waxing moon in the South. ... McQueen uses sound to suggest how naturally this all would happen with the gliding /w/s of "we would walk" and the absence of plosives. The poem concludes with ...

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She sits, thus, for hours until the room lightens with the glow of the rising Moon, the shafts of which pierce the window to land at her feet. ... She takes the medallion lovingly in her hands to greet with a soft kiss before raising it to the Moon's glow for approval. ... Very soon the Moon is fully raised and the shafts of silver cover her body and radiate around her. ... The Goddess is seen as Mother Earth and Mother Nature, and is represented by the moon. ... The Wiccan Rede, in its entirety is only two lines, "Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill, An" ye harm none, do what ye wil...

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The bride, and then the bridegroom, the two, and then the one, Adam, and Eve, his consort, the moon, and then the sun; The life doth prove the precept, who obey shall happy be, Who will not serve the sovereign, be hanged on fatal tree. ... The storm doth walk the seashore humming a mournful tune, The wave with eye so pensive, looketh to see the moon, Their spirits meet together, they make their solemn vows, No more he singeth mournful, her sadness she doth lose. ... Paragraph 5 This paragraph is a metaphor with the moon and sea symbolizing two lovers longing for each other, and ...

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They tried the sun and moon, without success, and tried earth, but still no dry land. ... Ta"aroa sat in his shell revolving in space with no light, stars, sun, or moon, to break the darkness. ... A raft came floating on the water, with two persons, Turtle A"noshma, and the Father of the Secret Society, Pehe"ipe. ... Bumba vomited up the moon and the stars. ... When at last the work of creation was finished, Bumba walked through the peaceful villages and said to the people, "Behold these wonders. ...

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