Aunt Josie was very superstitious in a funny way and a rather nice way. The thing I always remembered was – she knew how to plant things out-of-doors.  When she worked out there in her garden she wore an old-fashioned, dark-colored sunbonnet. She knew how to have a garden but she knew that you could only plant certain things at certain times of the moon. And it was quite a care to her to do it right, you know, and she told when I was there – I’m sure I heard her tell it – that she wanted to put some one of her garden seeds in and it wasn’t the right time of the moon, and it was going to be too late if she waited and she didn’t know what to do. So she put an old coat that had a hole in the pocket and put the seeds in the pocket and went out and jumped around on the ground. And that’s the way she planted her seeds at the wrong time of the moon!

Helen Hammond Mathews