Seeing this comic sight, Chandra, the Moon, burst into laughter. Ganesha got up, picked up the snake and tied it around his broken waist-line. (This snake belt can be seen in many sculptures of Ganesh). He then threw his broken tusk at the Moon and cursed him so that he would never again shine at night nor appear in the heavens.(In those times the full moon shone every day in the year). Without the Moon, there was no night, no moonlight and no twilight. People found they could not sleep in the bright sunlight which now shone veen at night. The gods found life in the heavens as intolerable as human beings found the earth without the Moon. The gods rushed to Ganesha and pleaded him. The kind-hearted Ganesha relented but said that the moon would no longer shine in full glory every night. He would was and wane from a bright fortnight to a dark fortnight ending with Full Moon and the New Moon alternatively. Also, it would not be lucky to see the Moon on Ganesh Chaturthi day (thhe fourth day of the bright fortnight) in the month of Bhaadrapad, as one who does will be the victim of scandal. The superstition exists to this day, and people carefully avoid looking at the moon on Ganesh Chaturthi. The over-superstitious however look downwards on Chaturthi day or the 4th day of the bright fortnight not only once a year but every month to be on the safe side.