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On the last day of the festival offerings were made to Hermes, and the dead were formally bidden to depart. Ovid describes the Lemuria or Lemuralia. They took place in May, which was consequently regarded as an unlucky month for marriages, and is still so regarded almost as universally in England to-day as it was in Rome during the principate of Augustus.
The sign of "le corna," the first and fourth fingers extended, the others turned down and the thumb closed over them, still used against the Evil Eye in Italy, was a mystic sign used by the Romans in the festival of Lemuralia. And we meet with the belief also in this country.
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