by Jeff Berwick
Dollar Vigilante
“Bad Moon Rising” is a song written by John Fogerty and performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1969. Fogerty reportedly wrote it after watching The Devil and Daniel Webster and has claimed that the song is about “the apocalypse that was going to be visited upon us”.
The word “lunatic” derives from the Latin luna, “moon.” The notion that the moon causes certain kinds of madness or induces dangerous aspects of our personalities has been around for millennia; Aristotle and Pliny the Elder, for instance, suggested the light of the moon affected mental health.