By the light of the Moon
The belief in subtle lunar influences on living things has waxed and waned like the Moon itself. Previously accepted as fact by scholars, it was later consigned to folklore, but odd, anomalous scientific results keep occurring. And the matter is still far from settled: the more biology we discover, the more complex it becomes.
The Moon has traditionally been linked to mental health, with ‘lunatic’ derived from luna, the Latin word for Moon. This may be because of the association with werewolves who are most apt to transform during the Full Moon. The British Lunacy Act of 1842 defined a
