The eleventh month of the Shire Calendar, approximately equivalent to modern November (in fact running from 22 October to 20 November on a modern calendar).
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To the Anglo-Saxons, from whom this name comes, the approach of winter traditionally saw the slaughtering of livestock, and the offering of sacrifices in the hope that the winter months would be mild. Hence in Old English this month was known as blōtmōnaþ (with the spelling modernised as Blotmath or Blodmath), the 'sacrifice month' or the 'blood month'.
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