It takes brisk, frosty weather for this lest the meat should spoil before being salted down and put away; and the darkies say it is bad luck to kill hogs except in “the disincrease" of the moon.
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Disincrease
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In the case of martyrs their death does not diminish the Church but enlarges it, because their blood "engendereth new supply and it increaseth the more when the disincrease thereof is violently procured.
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From acute respiraton disincrease of 500 over the preceding month; and an increase of 125 in deaths from consumption.
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My people have been so unhappy for a long time they wish now to disincrease, instead of multiply.
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