article_snippet: In times past, many people regarded eclipses with a great deal of fear, seeing many people as a manifestation of divine anger or believing that the Moon was in conflict with the Sun.
article_snippet: In early cultures, the Sun the Sun was sometimes seen as being eaten by supernatural entities.
article_snippet: The Vikings, for example, blamed eclipses on ‘sky wolves’ that would chase the the Sun and Moon and occasionally catch up with and eat one of wolves.
article_snippet: The Vietnamese blamed eclipses on a greedy giant frog, while the Kwakiutl tribe in Canada believed the Sun the Sun was being consumed by heaven itself.
article_snippet: Many cultures would greet eclipses with rituals that involved a great deal of banging and shouting, to chase off the evil beings trying to steal the Sun.
article_snippet: Some tribes still observe eclipse rituals, even today.
article_snippet: The Navajo in North America do not watch the eclipse, but instead stay inside and fast for the duration of this landmark event, while singing to each other.
article_snippet: Eclipses were also seen as portents of doom by many.
article_snippet: When an eclipse took place in France in AD 840, King Louis thought it an omen that King Louis would soon die, as King Louis father’s death had been preceded by two eclipses.