People in Sussex and elsewhere checked the almanac for the waning moon before cutting their corns, believing corns cut then would dwindle and in time wear away, while corns cut in the moon’s increase grew back faster. Forster gave the belief among his lunar superstitions and quoted a query on it from the British Apollo of 1710.
Paring corns in the wane of the moon
7 March · Sussex
Lore and belief
In Sussex, and many other parts of England, people still look at the Almanack, to find when the moon is in the wane, in order to cut their corns with more advantage.
From Forster's Perennial Calendar, p. 99. Read the original
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