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Nov 1912
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1912natur..90r.305b&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 90, Issue 2246, pp. 305 (1912).
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MAY I ask for a little space in your columns to inquire if any of your readers can give any information as to the origin of a belief, very widespread in South Africa, that fish exposed to the influence of moonlight becomes poisonous? I have not yet attempted any experiments to test the truth of the statement, nor have I been able to obtain actual evidence of illness or death following the eating of such fish. The belief is very firmly rooted here among all classes of persons, but no one seems able to say how or when it originated, or on what grounds it is based. One very trustworthy witness told me that he had accidentally left some fresh fish out in the moonlight one night, and that it was quite bad in the morning; he admitted, however, that the closeness of the atmosphere might have occasioned the effect, and, of course, he did not divide the sample so as to keep part of it unexposed. I intend to test the statement experimentally when opportunity offers; meanwhile possibly some of your readers can say whether the belief in this ill-effect of moonlight is found in other localities.
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