Samhain

ancient Celtic holiday of Samhain, pronounced "sah-win". Most of the modern traditions associated with Halloween can be traced back to traditions that began…

as All Hallows Eve. Halloween has a very long and fascinating history and its traditions have been changing and evolving into the holiday that we celebrate today. Halloween’s is thought to have originated from the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced sah-win) celebrated on November first. This was the day that the Celtics celebrated the start of the New Year which marked the end of the summer harvest and the start of winter. The Celts believed that October 31, the day before the…

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kids love it as it gives them an opportunity to dress up. Halloween is on the night of 31 October, the eve of All Saints' Day. It refers to the Celtic festival Samhain. The Celts celebrated this day because it was when those who looked after animals moved them into appropriate shelter to prepare for the long and cold winter ahead. Samhain also means ‘end of summer’ and the harvesting of crops also happened around this time. As you can imagine, there was much superstition connected with this…

love the spooky holiday. Halloween first generated as a Celtic holiday that was called Samhain. Though, Samhain wasn’t anything like the Halloween now. People would try to scare off ghosts off by lighting bonfires, and then by wearing costumes. This is how Halloween was associated with scary things. By the 18th century, this was changed, by Pope Gregory, to a holiday that was all about saints. After Samhain was moved to America, the holiday was mainly based on beliefs,…

away the evil spirits is for everyone to wear masks or dress up as something scary, and light bonfires so the spirits can go back to where they once originally were. Then when the Romans had conquered the Celts, the Romans tweaked the things to the Samhain festival. For example, they made center pieces out of apples and nuts for a Roman goddess of the orchards names Pomana. They also bobbed for apples and drank cider. After the Romans, in 835 things changed. Pope Gregory IV moved this…

Halloween is just around the corner, shops are loading their windows with witches hats, broomsticks, plastic spiders and all manner of ghoulish costumes. Here in the UK, scorn is poured on the holiday, mainly due to the fact the meaning of Halloween is largely unknown and often misunderstood. Many consider it to be an Americanisation and to some extent it is, others simply do not want to open their doors to mischievous children in cheap rubber masks. The true history of Halloween was lost long…

Halloween, also known as "All hallows eve" can be traced back more than two thousand years to a pre-Christian Celtic festival known as "Samhain". Halloween (October 31st) is the night when everyone dresses up as their greatest fantasy or their worst nightmare and goes door to door saying the world renowned phrase "trick or treat". Everyone wanders the streets collecting candy on this wonderful holiday without knowing the history behind it, or how the holiday even began, but how did Halloween…

Druidism is a religion as old as time. Its members consist of people from all walks of life, and its practices are as diverse as the Druids themselves. They do not actively recruit new members but are happy to include any who show an interest in embracing the “…. spiritual journey of the individual’s soul, one that honours each unique vision and expression” (Orr, 1998, p. 13). Important questions to ask before committing to a life of Druidism is how the followers create order and meaning within…

people. This ancient Celtic festival is known as Samhain. This holiday takes place October 31st at sunset to November 1st at sunset. The Celtic people were superstitious about an “in between” or purgatory from the living to the dead. They would light bonfires in order to keep the “evil” spirits away. Just like today people believed that the dead would walk among the living. In winter, the Celtic people believed it was the season of ghosts and during Samhain there was a release from the…