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All Hallow's Eve

All Hallow's Eve

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Comments: Does All Hallow's Eve have any festivities of its own? I'm talking strictly from a traditional sense and not the commercial trick or treating.

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Yes it has, the Celtic name for it is Samhain.
It was the last night of the Celtic Year and the Festival of Remembrance.

All Hallow's Eve Paranormal & Mystics Dreams Studies

Fire has always played an important part at Samhain. It was very important to the Celts as it was to all early people. In the old days people lit bonfires to ward away evil spirits and in some places they used to jump over the fire to bring good luck. Samhain was a fire festival to the Celts and in Ireland, originally all fires were put out save the sacred one which was kindled by the old rubbing sticks method, branches were then taken to light all fires in the land. Pagans today include a fire outside if possible for our celebrations, or indoors a candle in a cauldron is used to signify this. Bingley in West Yorkshire used to have a reminder of Celtic customs at its October Fair, Parkin pigs were sold. The boar is a symbol of the Sun in Celtic myth and so the symbol originally honoured it at the time of going into the light. Apples are traditional at this time and if you cut an apple crosswise you will see the centre displays a 5 pointed star or pentagram, the symbol used by many pagans as a sign of their beliefs.
-- Samhain - Cauldron Corner

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I found this information educational and never knew the relationship between the fire and the old celtic ways. Thanks for sharing that.