Most importantly, Samhain was viewed as a borderline, or liminal, festival as the separation between “summer and winter, lightness and darkness” (Rogers 2002).
111 months ago

I have been a very good boy this year and all I want for Halloween is for the Samhain back catalog to be reissued. I promise I will do all of my chores.
38 months ago

The tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.
181 months ago

Halloween, which celebrates ghouls and ghosts while illuminating the nation's love-hate relationship with candy corn, is rooted in a pre-Christian, Celtic...
2 months ago

Most historians trace the earliest origins of Halloween to Samhain, a Celtic harvest festival. The multi-day celebration marked the beginning of winter.
122 months ago

Right. Their job was their music and they knew where they stood and that was ok with them. They did very well, they all retired as multi...
49 months ago

A modern-day reinvention of the pre-Christian Celtic holiday in which the spirits of the dead are said to be closest to the living.
62 months ago

On a spiritual level, Samhain marked the time of the year in which the barrier between the earthly world and the spirit world dissolved,...
39 months ago

Samhain is a reminder to say “I love you” to the important people in your life. Death is inevitable, and while Samhain might allow us a few...
14 months ago

You are invited to tomorrow's meeting of the Montclair Society of Mythology and Storytelling in Dickson Hall 178 (Cohen Lounge), Tuesday,...
26 months ago