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Pennsylvania Dutch Rhyme On The Twelve Constellations, H. Wayne Gruber Jan 1950

Pennsylvania Dutch Rhyme On The Twelve Constellations, H. Wayne Gruber

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A clipping from John Gruber's Hagerstown almanac showing how the constellations correspond to parts of the human body and a childhood rhyme about the signs of the Zodiac recounted by H. Wayne Gruber. Gruber provides Pennsylvania Dutch translations for the star signs along with the rhyme his mother, Mary Ann Schaeffer, repeated to him as a child.