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Martinmas also takes place on Nov. 11, and it was widely celebrated as the start of winter, which coincided with seasonal preparations, such as the butchering of animals like geese.

The Raisin Monday celebrations fall in the middle part of the university's Martinmas Semester.

"Don't stand there babbling like a drunken mummer at Martinmas fair!" he shouted, with a round oath.

If I had been wise, and had ta'en advice,5 And dane as my bonny love bade me, I would hae been married at Martinmas, And been wi' my rantin' laddie.

The rotation of crops was unknown; and winter food for sheep and cattle not being raised, the greater number were slaughtered and salted at Martinmas.