On the darkest night of the Greek month a meal was left at a crossroads for Hecate, and by morning the poor had taken it.

The Deipnon cleared the household of the month's accumulated bad luck and the leftovers were placed outside; ancient writers note, with varying degrees of cynicism, who actually ate them. The following day was Noumenia, the new moon, which opened the next month clean. Modern practitioners have revived both, crossroads optional.