Samhain or Sauin is a Gaelic festival on 1 November marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year.
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Oct 28, 2024 · Samhain is the third and final harvest festival, falling after Lughnasad in August and the autumn equinox in September.
Samhain, in ancient Celtic religion, one of the most important and sinister calendar festivals of the year. At Samhain, held on November 1, the world of the ...
Aug 11, 2022 · Samhain (also: Samain) was a pastoral/harvest festival celebrated—under various names—across the Celtic world on the evening of October 31st and ...
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Apr 6, 2018 · In the Druid tradition, Samhain celebrates the dead with a festival on October 31 and usually features a bonfire and communion with the dead.
In Celtic Ireland Samhain was the division of the year between the lighter half (summer) and the darker half (winter)
Samhain, meaning "summer's end," is a celebration of the end of the harvest and the start of the coldest half of the year.
The Púca Festival at the end of October in the Boyne Valley celebrates the Celtic New Year with music, fire, feasting and merriment in the spirit of Halloween.
Most importantly, Samhain was viewed as a borderline, or liminal, festival as the separation between “summer and winter, lightness and darkness” (Rogers 2002).