Legends behind 'The man in the moon'
- a man who, one Christmas eve, stole cabbages from his neighbour’s garden. He was caught and sent to the moon. There he lives, bearing his load of cabbages for all eternity2.
- Inuits in Alaska believe the man is the keeper of the souls of men/animals.
3. Malasian legends say an old hunchback is on the moon. He is making a fishing line from the bark with a rat who gnaws through the line and a cat who chases the rat. The legend goes that this little circle has to continue – if the man’s fishing line ever reaches the Earth the Earth will end.