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St. Mark's Eve
(Mainly northern England) Before churches with burial grounds were established, corpses were moved out from city and town centers and burials were took place in the country. There are long, straight roads called "corpse roads" to facilitate this movement. It was believed that the roads had to be straight or the souls would become lost and left wandering. On the evening of April 24, a vigil was kept along the corpse road from the hours of 11 pm to 1 am, it was believed that one could see the wraiths of those who would die in the coming year walking the corpse road at that time.