Fenland at Full Moon

Fenland at Full Moon (c.1947) - Artist Unknown

A Fenland superstition is that public dinners should always be held at the full moon, or tragedy will follow. Knowing the Fenland roads, with the wide ditches on each side and the total absence of lights, the authors can well believe it. Driving along these roads in the dim light of a waning or waxing moon is an operation fraught with considerable peril-especially after a public dinner, at which the wine has flowed with the generosity of Fenland people.

from Encyclopedia of Superstitions (1949) by Edwin Radford and Mona A. Radford