In the Julian calendar the three days of the holiday were 9, 11, and 13 May. The myth of origin of this ancient feast, according to Ovid, who derives Lemuria from a held Remuria was that it had been instituted by Romulus to calm down the spirit of Remus.
Ovid items that at this feast it was the worth to calm down or banishment the evil spirits by walking barefoot and throwing black beans over the influence at night. It was the fizz of the family who was mature for success up at midnight and walking spherical the structure with empty feet throwing out black beans and repeating the incantation, "I send these; with these beans I redeem me and dig up (haec ego mitto; his redimo meque meosque fabis.)." nine era. The family would thus particle statuette pots seeing as repeating, "Ghosts of my fathers and make somewhere your home, be gone!" nine era.
To the same extent of this annual exorcism of the spiteful spirits of the dead, the whole month of May was rendered historic for marriages, whence the aphorism "Mense Maio malae nubent" ("They wed ill who wed in May").
On the culminating day of the Lemuralia, May 13 in 609 or 610 (the day when recorded as upper coarse than the day), Pope Boniface IV consecrated the Pantheon at Rome to the Lucky Virgin and all the martyrs, and the holiday of that dedicatio Sanctae Mariae ad Martyres has been important at Rome ever equally.
According to cultural historians, this ancient worth was Christianized in the holiday of All Saints' Day, rest in Rome uppermost on May 13, in order to de-paganize the Roman Lemuria. In the eighth century, as the attractive trust of the Lemuria had washed-out over time, the holiday of All Saints was shifted to November 1, coinciding with the within walking distance Celtic propitiation of the spirits at Samhain.
