The Moon has long held a mystical place in cultures all over the world, specifically when it’s full and at its brightest. It occurs every approximately 29.5 days, carrying the legacy of various myths, tales, and superstitions, and despite having done very extensive research and reaching very limited conclusions, this mystical phenomenon still has people tensing up and doing other strange things when it inevitably arrives once a month.
Click through to see the various fascinating beliefs about the moon’s effects down on Earth, on which scientists, astronomers, scholars, and regular folk can’t quite seem to agree.