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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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 ...
Oct 28, 2024 ˇ Samhain is the third and final harvest festival, falling after Lughnasad in August and the autumn equinox in September.
Samhain
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Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2025 – Sat, Nov 1, 2025
Aug 11, 2022 ˇ Samhain (also: Samain) was a pastoral/harvest festival celebrated—under various names—across the Celtic world on the evening of October 31st and ...
Apr 6, 2018 ˇ 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)
Oct 31, 2024 ˇ Halloween began as a the Festival of Samhain about 2,000 years ago. It was created as a way for the Celts to scare away ghosts and spirits. They ...
Most importantly, Samhain was viewed as a borderline, or liminal, festival as the separation between “summer and winter, lightness and darkness” (Rogers 2002).
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Samhain, meaning "summer's end," is a celebration of the end of the harvest and the start of the coldest half of the year.