Full moon of New England), while others are based in European tradition (e.g., the Colonial American names for the May moon, "Milk Moon", "Mother's Moon", "Hare Moon" have no parallels in the supposed native names, while the name of November, "Beaver Moon" is supposedly based in the Algonquin). The individual names given in "Farmers' Almanac" include: The Long Night's Moon is the last of the year and the closest to the winter solstice. "Ice moon" is also used to refer to the first full moon of January or February. In Hinduism, most festivals are celebrated on auspicious days. Many of the Hindu
Full moon were less likely. All this is relevant to canine rather than human behavior. Historically, month names are names of moons (lunations, not necessarily full moons) in lunisolar calendars. Since the introduction of the solar Julian calendar in the Roman Empire, and later the Gregorian calendar worldwide, people no longer perceive month names as "moon" names. The traditional Old English month names were equated with the names of the Julian calendar from an early time (soon after Christianization, according to the testimony of Bede ca. AD 700). Some full moons have developed new names in modern times, e.g., the blue moon,