Halloween or Samhain? Why witches, pumpkins and spooky things? Are we really celebrating what our ancestors did, or has it all become a lot of commercial nonsense. Here I look at what Samhain was, and what Halloween is, and the differences are, well... just watch the video.

We touch on All Saints Day, All Souls Day, and All Hallows Eve, to find out the actual day we shoud be celebrating something.

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References

“The Boyhood Deeds of Fion”
https://www.ancienttexts.org/library/...

Matryology of Oengus the Culdee, https://archive.org/details/martyrolo...

Cunliffe, Barry. the Ancient Celts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 208 ff;
Dorson, Richard M., ed. Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists. Vol. II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968, p. 29;
Evans-Wentz, W. Y. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, Humanities Press, 1911, pp. 99 ff;
Julius Caesar. Conquest of Gaul, VI.18. Translator. W. A. McDevitte. Translator. W. S. Bohn. 1st Edition. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1869. Harper's New Classical Library
MacCulloch, J. A. The Religion of the Ancient Celts. London: Constable, 1911, p. 66, 166;
Ross, Anne. Folklore of the Scottish Highlands. London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1976, p. 40.

Chapters
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0:00 Introduction
1:26 The Role of the Catholic Church
3:19 What was Samhain
4:34 All Saints Day
5:15 A Church conspiracy theory?
7:07 Days and Nights
10:46 What does history say?
14:10 Old rituals
15:30 Portals to the Otherworld
16:22 Other beliefs
17:19 Halloween has changed
18:31 What have we lost?
19:15 When was Samhain?
20:25 More rituals lost forever