Samhain: The Original Halloween Festival

Samhain Ritual Offerings for Ancestors & Beloved Dead

Celtic Samhain Rituals Explained | Origins of Halloween

Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago, mostly in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the li

Discover how Halloween began in ancient Ireland as the Celtic festival of Samhain, where bonfires,

The Celtic Festival That Became Halloween