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23. A full moon (24.5 points)
Nominated by: BetrayedTangy (3/5 remaining)

https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/bad-moon-rising-myth-full-moon/story?id=3426758

Importance: 10
Fear: 5.5
Snake: 9

Commonly associated with horror staple the Werewolf, full moons are known for their capacity to foreshadow incoming danger, terror, and the weird. Whilst moons weren't always associated with werewolves, it rose to prominence as an integral part of the legend in the 20th century, first shown on film in 1943's Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. Real life studies influenced the "werewolf curse", and it is believed that people tend to become more violent or strange as a full moon appears. This goes all the way back to ancient Greek times, where Hippocrates wrote "One who is seized with terror, fright and madness during the night is being visited by the goddess of the moon." The full moon is a large part of many cultures' mythology: in Norse stories, Mani, the personification of the moon, would be eaten by a wolf to signal the coming of Ragnarok; Chinese folklore has Chang'e, the banished goddess of the moon for stealing her husband's immortality potion. Taking fiction and mythology out of it for a moment, there's always been something captivating to me about a full moon. Its light glow actually has the opposite effect on me that it supposedly has on others, I find it quite relaxing and meditating to take in the full glory of a full moon. Still, I won't deny there's also an underlying mystical and ethereal quality about it. And it's in that root that the horror stories start to unfold, making the full moon a very inspirational part of horror history.
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