Happy Samhain everyone! 🎃 What is Samhain? ( I did a little digging) Samhain, is a pagan religious celebration that is the origin of Halloween. Originating from ancient Celtic spiritual traditions, it is a celebration to welcome in the harvest and usher in the “darkest half of the year”. Many believe that the barriers between the physical work and the spirit world are at their thinnest during Samhain, allowing more interactions between humans, spirits and otherworldly beings. This is actually t

The Ancient festival of Samhain- Halloween at the National Museum of Ireland- Country Life

Halloween has its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, a Gaelic word pronounced “SAH-win”, (apologies to any Gaelic speakers if I didn’t pronounce it well!) It’s an ancient pagan religious celebration to welcome the harvest at the end of summer and signifies the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead. In the past, communities would light huge bonfires to keep evil spirits at bay. In true Scottish tradition, scary faces were carved into neeps (turnips) to create lanter