Samhain Explained: Halloween’s Celtic Origins 

Halloween started in Ireland, around 2000 years ago. The name Samhain is Irish for November and it was a time to remember the dead that had passed. Turnips was carved as faces were placed in the Windows with a candle inside as time of remember. It was brought to America, by the Irish and it spread as a traditional event like St Patrick's day.

Thank you for pulling & posting this information in such a simplified & fun way 🎃👻💀🍎🦹🏽🧛🏿‍♀️🧟‍♂️🧙🏼‍♀️

The modern, standardized celebration style is a Canadian gift to the people who would celebrate anyway. Some nice lady organized a Halloween party for the neighborhood children with supervised trick-or-treat, unheard of in those days. It caught on pretty quickly, and it had spread out over most of North America within a decade. This was sometime in the late 1800s and I heard the story about ten years ago, so I really can't be certain that it is even true. Even so, I benefitted greatly as a little one from that style of doing Halloween with your kids. I'm glad that you did this video, I believe that there is always a kernel of truth in each myth or ancient tale, and I'm glad that you covered all the bases in the video. That is sure to make a few people more curious about those myths and legends, good job.

Your holy day and festival videos are refreshing since I can actually learn and not just be bombarded with platitudes and the smell of cat pee.

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Don’t forget late October is magic mushroom season and they would have been taking them in rituals. Anyone who has taken them will agree they give the world a creepy vibe and to me there is no way that could not be related to Halloween

great vid

Ah, man, I can't call it Sam-hane now? No, seriously, I hate that. Thank you SO much for pronouncing this well, and everything else, too. 👍🧟‍♂️

The Sisters in my Catholic Grade School back in the late 1950's, told us the Church took Pagan customs and baptized them, making them Christian. That is why we have All Saints on Nov. 1. We always dressed up as our favorite saint for a party at school

Samhain means November. Haloween is Oíche Shamhna

Is this a powerful name?

Halloween and November 1st The Day of the Dead is in remembrance of the great flood. When else in history has so many people perished at one time in one event? It is now something far different. Blessings to you

I'm a little sad to see the scary costumes of days past replaced by Star Wars & Spiderman. We decorate our courtyard & dress up to hand out candy to all the kids who come by on Halloween & I have never seen a ghost, zombie, witch or devil in the 17 years we've been doing this. It's all fairy princess (usually Disney) Marvel Super Heroes & Star Wars characters. Ninjas were kind of popular for a couple years probably because it's fairly easy to throw together. Due to the pernicious & ridiculous rumors about candy poisonings & razor blades in apples & now the Fentanyl scare (nobody is handing out expensive recreational drugs for free to kids on Halloween) schools & malls have taken over the tradition of trick or treating with kids getting candy from stores & some churches offering trunk or treats in their parking lots if they haven't banned the holiday altogether as satanic. It used to be a fun time with home made costumes & home made treats & parties with games but alas no longer. 😢

20:30 And some might say the age of type 2 diabetes.

I live in wales and its annoying that you pronounced it Calon gaive its pronounced calon Gai-ath😂

It gas bo importance only that it was is to respecr theit dead as a family goung too grave abd talking to them iffering apoles pears never meat..samain was a personal thung agreed by alll celts in ireland scotland .candkes wgere left by grave flat but long hours where spent talking to theur dead .some people dond luke the action of begging at doors masks whhich was never case then .its a insulting to be praise its celtic and should leave it that way .respect if family dead.bad kuck toninsukt it samain remember thst😢

A lot of interesting information in this video, but also a lot of dubious claims; many of the Halloween traditions that some authors have attributed to Samhain can only be traced to well after Christianization, with their supposed origins in Samhain being entirely speculative. Basically, people have just worked backwards for a lot of them - Mumming was popular on Halloween from the 16th century, Halloween was on the same day as Samhain, therefore Mumming originated as a Samhain tradition, even though we have no actual records pointing to this. The same thing goes for a number of other practices from trick-or-treating to carving Jack o'Lanterns (including the turnip ones) to even viewing the holiday as a celebration of the dead or something spooky (the ancient Celts didn't exactly write down what vibes they associated with the holiday). Even the idea that the date of All Hallows' Eve was moved to coincide with Samhain is questionable! This kind of speculation was very common in 19th and early-20th century sources, when scholars were less rigorous about supporting claims with verifiable evidence, and has been repeated in more recent works by people simply citing these old sources without verifying their claims. Although we can not rule out the continuation of Samhain traditions and associations through folk culture that was passed down without any written records until more recent times, a lack of primarily evidence makes treating this as fact highly dubious. I have a video on my channel called "The Dubiously Pagan Origins on Halloween" where I go into this in more depth, with all of my sources cited in the description.

So Halloween is a extortion racket.🤣