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This image has nothing in October about FER, while February has B FER the 8th day after EIDVS FEBRVARII. I thus conclude that the first explanation, not the second is valid as regards to the republic, while the second explanation might still be true in another sense or in another age. Said: Rursus (☻) 16:28, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted the following from the article, since it is clearly erroneous, but I have placed it here in Talk for further discussion. The meme that the Feralia were in Autumn seems quite widespread, and this phenomenon is interesting to me. How could something so obviously counterfactual become so widely believed that it is repeated by semi-respectable sources like the History Channel. My experience with this particular counter-knowledge is that it seems to be produced as evidence for an alleged pagan origin to Halloween reported by an unlikely consortium of progressive Catholics, fundamentalist Protestants, and neo-Pagans. Rogue Classicism has been on the case of tracking down the origins of this meme for some time. Rwflammang (talk) 20:58, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conflicting the above information is that Feralia was a holiday celebrated in late October when Romans celebrated the passing of the dead. Feralia and the holiday to honor the goddess, Pomona, was merged with the Celtic holiday, Samhain (pronounced Sa-wen), celebrated on October 31st to eventually be the modern holiday of Halloween.

This information can be found on various websites including The History Channel at http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=713&display_order=1&mini_id=1076 and The Association for Latin Teaching at http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/10/30/1330063.html