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Lemuralia

[lem-yuh-rey-lee-uh, -reyl-yuh]

noun

(sometimes used with a plural verb)
  1. the annual festival in ancient Rome in which the lemures, or family ghosts, were exorcised from houses.



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The Athenians had their annual Νεκύσια or Νεμέσεια and the Romans their Feralia and Lemuralia.

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They were so feared that a festival, called the Lemuralia, was celebrated in order to propitiate them.

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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.

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