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23 hours ago · Editor's Note: This article contains spoilers for Ghosts Season 4, Episode 3, "Halloween 4: The Witch". Ghosts just delivered its fourth outrageously funny Halloween-themed episode, with "The Witch."
23 hours ago · Caution: This post contains SPOILERS for Ghosts season 4, episode 3. With a Puritan ghost in the house, Sam and Jay decide they should have a quiet Halloween. Patience is already certain that Sam ...
1 day ago · Samhain was the pivotal point of the Celtic Pagan new year, a time of rebirth – and death. "Pagans had three harvests: Lammas, harvest of the corn, on 1 August; the one of fruit and vegetables ...
6 days ago · The Celtic festival of Samhain. Halloween’s roots can be found in Samhain (pronounced “Sow-in”), an ancient Celtic festival that marked the end of the harvest season and the onset of winter ...
4 days ago · Samhain, the ancient Celtic festival that pre-existed Halloween, is having a resurgence in Ireland and beyond.
Aug 15, 2022 · And while it’s clear why Samhain—and later, Halloween—became associated with death and demons and monsters and ill-intentioned fairies, what’s less clear is when and where Samhain originated in the first place.
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Samhain (/ ˈsɑːwɪn / SAH-win, / ˈsaʊɪn / SOW-in, Irish: [ˈsˠəunʲ], Scottish Gaelic: [ˈs̪ãũ.ɪɲ]) or Sauin (Manx: [ˈsoːɪnʲ]) is a Gaelic festival on 1 November marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or "darker half" of the year. [1] It is also the Irish and Scottish Gaelic name for November.
