Full moon in the sky.) Thus, there is no long period of darkness between sunset and moonrise for several days after the full moon, thus lengthening the time in the evening when there is enough light for men to see to work to get the harvest in. The "Maine Farmers' Almanac" from c. the 1930s began to publish Native American "Indian" full moon names. The "Farmers' Almanac" (since 1955 published in Maine, but not the same publication as the "Maine Farmers' Almanac") continues to do so. An early list of "Indian month names" was published in 1918 by Daniel Carter Beard in
Full moon were less likely. All this is relevant to canine rather than human behavior. Historically, month names are names of moons (lunations, not necessarily full moons) in lunisolar calendars. Since the introduction of the solar Julian calendar in the Roman Empire, and later the Gregorian calendar worldwide, people no longer perceive month names as "moon" names. The traditional Old English month names were equated with the names of the Julian calendar from an early time (soon after Christianization, according to the testimony of Bede ca. AD 700). Some full moons have developed new names in modern times, e.g., the blue moon,