Samhain

Samhain is the Gaelic celebration at the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. It is pronounced SOW-in. This festival is also celebrated in Paganism and Wicca. It is now known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve and celebrated on the 31st of October.

Legends

A common legend on Samhain is that it is easy to talk to the dead. One way to do this is by using a Ouija board, a wooden board with numbers and letters on it.

Samhain Media

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  Samonios on the Coligny calendar

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  The hero Fionn fighting Aillen, who is said to have burned Tara each Samhain

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  The 'Cave of Cruachan', one of the many 'gateways to the Otherworld' whence beings and spirits were said to have emerged on Samhain.

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  Snap-Apple Night (1833), painted by Daniel Maclise, shows people playing divination games on 31 October in Ireland

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  A Mari Lwyd, the Welsh equivalent of the Láir Bhán

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  A plaster cast of an Irish Seán na Gealaí turnip lantern from the early 20th century at the Museum of Country Life

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  Samhuinn Wikipedia editathon at the University of Edinburgh, 2016

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  Wheel of the Year