"We had a romantic attachment to the full moon, or Midsummer's Eve," Joan Aghevli said.
As it disappeared on the cloudless horizon, the sun's rays cast a golden glow on a rising crescent moon decorated on the eve of the summer solstice by a silvery alignment of planets and stars.
It begins in 1969, on the eve of the Apollo moon landings, at an English funfair.
That said, Moira Walley-Beckett, who wrote last week's show (in blood, on the eve of the full moon, in forbidden elder runes), is promising two further '"uncomfortable, extraordinary, nerve-shattering evenings", amusingly assuming any of us have nerves left.
On 19 September, the eve of the full moon, many people take to the streets or parks carrying lit paper lanterns hooked over a thin bamboo stick (or the modern plastic equivalent).
The date was February 1, the eve of the New Moon in Aquarius commencing the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit and also the Feast Day of St. Brigid and Candlemas.
On the eve of a full moon, the sun having set, prepare and take a bath with sea salt added, by the light of a single candle.
Thackery attracts the ladies at the hospital, too, including a bicycle-riding West Virginian nurse who moons after him (the raw-faced Eve Hewson, giving a subtle, watchable performance).
At sunset on the eve of the Full Harvest Moon, the people gather for an all night vigil on the banks of a river where they fast and bathe.
