Samhain [SOW-in]
Witches’ New Year, Halloween, All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Eve (Oct 31 - Nov 1)
Samhain marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the darker half of the year in the traditional Gaelic calendar. It is a liminal threshold — a night historically associated with ancestral presence, spirit folklore, and seasonal transition.
Samhain is not merely a festival of the dead. It is a hinge in the year — a closing of fields, a drawing inward, a reckoning with memory. Historically rooted in Gaelic seasonal observance, it marked the boundary between summer’s labor and winter’s austerity.
Here you will find articles exploring its historical origins, folk customs, underworld symbolism, ancestral rites, and the modern evolution of Halloween. Each piece connects back to the broader archive — where myth, memory, and mortality are treated with both reverence and restraint.
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