Bronze Age European peoples, such as the Celts, associated the Pleiades with mourning and funerals because the cluster rose in the eastern sky during the festival of Samhain (the cross-quarter day between the autumn equinox and winter solstice), which was devoted to the remembrance of the dead.

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