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Samhain: The Complete Story of the Ancient Celtic Festival Behind Halloween | Celtic Folklore for Sleep
Samhain: The Complete Story of the Ancient Celtic Festival Behind Halloween | Celtic Folklore for Sleep
A slow, quiet retelling of Samhain, made for falling asleep to.
It's older than Halloween by a long way, and it was never really about fear. It was about the end of October, which in an agricultural year meant the end of everything: the harvest in, the herds brought down from the summer pasture, the animals that couldn't be fed through the winter slaughtered, and a long dark stretch ahead that people were genuinely not certain they'd all come through.
So they marked it. The old Irish texts…
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