Samhain: Halloween In The Middle Ages

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ANCIENT Origins of HALLOWEEN. Origins date back to the ancitent who lived 2,000 yers ago in the area in the area that is now Ireland, the united Kingdom
As for the trick or treating, or “guising” (from “disguising”), traditions, beginning in the Middle-Ages, children and sometimes poor adults would dress up in the aforementioned costumes and go around door to door during Hallowmas begging for food or money in exchange for songs and prayers, often said on behalf of the ...Oct 18, 2012 have had pagan roots; and that Samhain itself was Christianized as Halloween by the early Church.

It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated from ancient Celtic harvest

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