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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Oct 28, 2024 · Samhain is the third and final harvest festival, falling after Lughnasad in August and the autumn equinox in September.
Aug 11, 2022 · Samhain (also: Samain) was a pastoral/harvest festival celebrated—under various names—across the Celtic world on the evening of October 31st and ...
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 ...
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Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2025 – Sat, Nov 1, 2025
In Celtic Ireland Samhain was the division of the year between the lighter half (summer) and the darker half (winter)
Apr 6, 2018 · In the Druid tradition, Samhain celebrates the dead with a festival on October 31 and usually features a bonfire and communion with the dead.
Most importantly, Samhain was viewed as a borderline, or liminal, festival as the separation between “summer and winter, lightness and darkness” (Rogers 2002).
Nov 23, 2024 · The length of the celebration has been debated, but it's generally said to be around three days and three nights, starting at dusk on Oct. 31.
31st of October - 1st of November, is Samhain (pronounced sowin) - a fire festival to welcome the winter and darker half of the year. Samhain is seen by ...
Samhain, meaning "summer's end," is a celebration of the end of the harvest and the start of the coldest half of the year.