This is a list of names given to the full moon. Various traditions and ancient cultures have names a full moon that occurs at different times of the year. While there are lots of websites and books dedicated to listing them all, I shall plunge in and say that I go with less known names.
August is mainly called a Sturgeon Moon or Fish Moon, as it was a time when fish appeared in abundance in lakes and rivers across North America. In old Europe, the Celts gave the August full moon two names, either or, Lynx Moon and Dispute Moon. Anglo Saxons called the August moon the Grain Moon. In Old England, this moon was still Grain Moon and then Lightning Moon, Barley Moon and Fruit Moon.
Some websites put Corn Moon as the name by English people from the Middle Ages, but this is wrong, because there was no corn in England or anywhere in Europe back then! Corn is from the Americas and none of it was introduced into Europe until well after the 1600's. Some writers could have this fact confused with the Green Corn Moon name from the Cherokee tribe. Corn Moon of June, which is one of the names given by Native Americans.
The August full moon was also called Swan Flight Moon by the Inuit, Flying Up Moon and Red Moon.
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