This was a fascinating and very well researched video. It's a shame that so many of the meanings, traditions and history of our ancient festivals have been lost - these days, hardly anyone seems to know anything! It's reassuring to know that practices like candle lanterns (such a sensible and interesting explanation for their use!) and apple bobbing go so far back. Halloween was dying out during my childhood, at least in the big cities of England, and it took the American enthusiasm for the festival to revive it over here.
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.
Excellent documentary! I've heard that bats were made a Halloween tradition based on ancient bonfires which attracted bugs who were then eaten by the bats.
Sam is the Old Irish word for sun. Fuinn is an Old Irish word meaning end. Samhuinn in it's older spelling is the sun's end. In it's modern pronounciation, it is Sow-wen.
I'm really interested in etymology and I went looking for 'fuinn'. Interestingly, the free dictionary Wiktionary suggests that it meant 'to bake' or (of food) 'overdo', which suggests the feasting typical of a harvest celebration. It has sam coming from the proto-Celtic samos, meaning summer. Together, these would suggest '[end of] summer feast' which makes a great deal of sense if, back in the more southerly Gaulish regions, it was indeed something of a harvest festival.
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.
Brought to America by Irish and Scottish people. Samhain is a Scottish holiday too. Scots come from Ireland. On top of that Wales had something similar. Until recently Welsh people continued the fire practices of Halloween
I love that you acknowledged sources you used. And this was a great representation. Most videos on the subject spend less time on the origins and more time on modern Halloween. I'm interesting in the history of the subject of Samhain.
Thank you! I appreciate the comment. I really do make an effort to cite all of my sources. P.S. You can find more Samhain info (with links to references) over on the IrishMyths blog: irishmyths.com/samhain/
The original apple from an even earlier time were actually Amanita Muscaria mushrooms that most certainly would have invoked the sun deity's return during their psychedelic experience.
St. Patrick realised he would never stop the Irish celebrating Pagan festivals, so he stole those festivals and Christianised them. He also took the most important pagan God, the Sun, and put it, as a circle, on the intersection of the Christian cross. Thus inventing the Celtic Cross.
regarding the meaning of the word Samhain. Instead of assembly, I think it translates more correctly as "reunion". The 4 quarters of the year festivals were times people got together for big meetings and shared news, had celebrations for important deaths, and probably made big announcements or plans. So it functions as a reuinion of the people, a reuinion between spirits, a reuinion between the winter and summer months.
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
@@TheyForgotMySalad In the early years the church in Rome celebrated All Saints Day on 13th May. By 800 the churches in England and Germany were holding the feast on November 1st. It is not clear as to why they moved the date - but a gloomy November is obviously more appropriate to celebrating dead saints than a sunny May. The Pope authorised the change in the 830's. The theory that November 1st was chosen to incorporate the pagan festival of Samhain doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Samhain was not celebrated in England or Germany - and in Ireland where it was celebrated the Irish Church held the feast of All Saints on 20th April (before the move to 1st November). The Irish Church clearly felt no threat from whatever remained of Samhain.
Soul cakes is a Catholic tradition meant to remember that you must do as Christ said "to feed the poor" because you do not know when you will die. We remember our own death as we pray for All Souls. The Soul Cakes had a cross shape pressed into them representing Communion received at Mass. These cakes are good deeds for our souls to give as offerings to the poor children.
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
Treat or treat started as children going from house to house begging for sticks for the bonfires (built to keep the spirits away) according to other sources.
I specifically sought out this video because I saw where it was removed from some libraries. Now that I've seen the video I do not understand why it was removed😢
The mummers go back to the 10th century. They would go house to house to play dice 🎲 and other games , in complete silence during holiday times. Playing games in silence, gave us the saying "Mums the words" in other words keep quiet/ keep that to yourself 😊
So it's mostly tunes I recorded (live) with my old Celtic/folk band, one them being Tam Lin’s reel. You can listen to both the fiddle tunes here m.soundcloud.com/thebardofboston/sets/devaneys-goat-live-2009-2010 And I'm pretty sure I stuck my original, atmospheric electric piano tune "Duel of the Druids" in there as well, available here: Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/3ID5N3zxA7tR1zdvabCmcT Amazon: amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0CTJ86DH2 Apple: music.apple.com/us/album/celtic-grab-bag/1728992132
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. 😢
In Ireland you wouldn't say trick or treat, you'd say "Help the Halloween Party" and would be given fruit etc. not sweets to go back and eat with the group of friends you were going around with and then tell stories of the Sith and Fey like ghost stories.
Some feedback on your books. I'll probably pick them up, but pocket books for $25 (Canadian on Amazon) is fairly steep. They have a print on demand version that likely would save you on your overhead. And I hope they're full of little facts and not "factoids" as that means something that sounds true but isn't.
Thanks for the feedback. Full disclosure you can get nearly all of the same content over on IrishMyths.com if you don't want to spend the $ / want to see what type of info you'll find. These aren’t books full of *my* opinions, they're full of summaries/analyses of my research. And I always cite my sources. P.S. I lived in Canada (Montréal) for six years, lovely country you've got there!
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
It's my understanding that November 1st is the day of the living. The day of the Dead is my birthday, November 2nd. Combined, the days are referred to as the days of the Dead.
People who are fans of studying languages, like to have opinions on the origins of words and languages, they like to know better than anyone else, they have tunnel vision. The narration of this video goes on, way too long, about the word Samhain. Irish people are laid back about the spelling and pronunciation of their language. Different parts of the country use the language in different ways, with different accents, pronunciations, spelling and sometimes even meanings. My village has a slightly different accent and slang to another village, just a mile away. Good luck to AI, trying to mimic Ireland.
If you are around younger or older Misfits or Danzig fans then maybe or around someone that feels that it is and put faith into the belief it can be, careful how you use this power because irresponsible use leads to The Venom of God.
I enjoyed this video, but the pronunciation of Beltane is NOT "bell-ta-nee" , it is "Bell-tane" with the "a" being long, not the "e". I have never heard it pronounced "Bell-ta-nee" in my 60+ years on this planet until today.
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.
As a Pagan Pantheist I completely disagree with this comment. It’s a well known fact that christianity is nothing more than a military propaganda scheme created by the Flavian Dynasty Roman Empire era who stole Pagan identities & Spiritual rituals/beliefs to sow together a new man made religion to bring people spread out over the vast areas they conquered to Roman heel. A lot of Pagan documents & historic artifacts were completely destroyed over the centuries (like during the christian crusades for instance) because of the hate that christianity creates & promotes to anyone outside of their falsehood claims. The worshiping of all things in the Universe, of our beautiful Blue Planet 🌏 & the seasons our rotation around the Sun 🌞 & Moon 🌚 brings forth is what Pagan Sabbats like Samhain honors & celebrates! You really need to do more historical research before you post crap like this!
Samhain always occupies an important place in ancient Irish mythology, whose earliest written text dates to the early 7th century. This and subsequent texts were copies of copies and often had passages in archaic forms of Irish which would date the originals, and the oral traditions they reflected, even earlier. Samhain can safely be assumed to go back 3,000 years. However, if we look at the archaeological record we see Samhain aligned as a quarter day on some very ancient monuments, such as Listoghil in Carrowmore. A skull found inside the monument dates to 3,600 B.C. By the way, the ancient Irish did write down what vibes they associated with the holiday, and yes, it was spooky.
@@johndanielharold3633 While they contain references to Samhain, the oldest Irish texts do not go into detail about Samhain practices, particularly not any that represent clear precursors to later Halloween traditions. As such, beyond the fact that Samhain was an important day (as may be represented by the archaeological finds you mentioned), we can say very little for sure about what the holiday looked like before Christianity; the sources only give us a tantalizingly small glimpse of actual practices, and suggest that it probably had an association with a thinning of the barrier between mortals and the supernatural (so yeah, probably kinda spooky, but not necessarily in the same way).
@@SomasAcademy Samhain´s timeline is obviously extremely ancient, and whatever about the evolution of customs and practices attached to it, some things are very clear : the interdimensional liminality at its very heart - the lighting of communal bonfires - the honouring of the ancestor spirits - and the wearing of grotesque costumes to protect yourself, and especially children, from hungry ghosts.
@@johndanielharold3633 Everything except the last two points, sure. The second to last point is questionable and the last one has no evidence whatsoever.
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😢
There's a bit of a hole in this theory. Pumpkins are indigenous to the Americas and not Europe. They had to be brought over to Europe from the Americas... so there were no pumpkins till well after the 1500's.
Sounds like you didn't watch the whole video. If you had, you would've learned that the ancient Irish didn't carve pumpkins, they carved turnips and other vegetables. More info here: ruclips.net/video/oHAD7AV7xio/видео.htmlsi=wCkw-4X7WAO-wNSW
@@rudithedog7534 really lol were homosapens lol rest of our ansesters were different humans hunter gathers and neolithic farmers lol maybe u were a fish at one pint u never know lol
That would have been quite embarrassing-especially since I also made this video! ruclips.net/video/Jg46Dx5F1W4/видео.htmlsi=FIz8Khqo1VqwQ2ww (Although to be fair apparently I mispronounced "pronunciation")
This was a fascinating and very well researched video. It's a shame that so many of the meanings, traditions and history of our ancient festivals have been lost - these days, hardly anyone seems to know anything! It's reassuring to know that practices like candle lanterns (such a sensible and interesting explanation for their use!) and apple bobbing go so far back. Halloween was dying out during my childhood, at least in the big cities of England, and it took the American enthusiasm for the festival to revive it over here.
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.
Excellent documentary! I've heard that bats were made a Halloween tradition based on ancient bonfires which attracted bugs who were then eaten by the bats.
Thank you! And I had never heard that before! Makes sense 🦇🦇🦇🦟🦟🦟
I like the language tree in the beginning of the video. Best I've seen
Thank you for pulling & posting this information in such a simplified & fun way 🎃👻💀🍎🦹🏽🧛🏿♀️🧟♂️🧙🏼♀️
Sam is the Old Irish word for sun. Fuinn is an Old Irish word meaning end. Samhuinn in it's older spelling is the sun's end. In it's modern pronounciation, it is Sow-wen.
I'm really interested in etymology and I went looking for 'fuinn'. Interestingly, the free dictionary Wiktionary suggests that it meant 'to bake' or (of food) 'overdo', which suggests the feasting typical of a harvest celebration. It has sam coming from the proto-Celtic samos, meaning summer. Together, these would suggest '[end of] summer feast' which makes a great deal of sense if, back in the more southerly Gaulish regions, it was indeed something of a harvest festival.
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.
Brought to America by Irish and Scottish people. Samhain is a Scottish holiday too. Scots come from Ireland. On top of that Wales had something similar. Until recently Welsh people continued the fire practices of Halloween
Let this pernicious piece of BS stand aye accursed in the calendar.
Irish for "Summer's End".
St Patrick was Italian
st george was chinese@@BigCheech-wy9os
I love that you acknowledged sources you used. And this was a great representation. Most videos on the subject spend less time on the origins and more time on modern Halloween. I'm interesting in the history of the subject of Samhain.
Thank you! I appreciate the comment. I really do make an effort to cite all of my sources.
P.S. You can find more Samhain info (with links to references) over on the IrishMyths blog: irishmyths.com/samhain/
The original apple from an even earlier time were actually Amanita Muscaria mushrooms that most certainly would have invoked the sun deity's return during their psychedelic experience.
Here in Portugal we still have a lot of those festivities guised as christian ceremonies and most people are not even aware of it
St. Patrick realised he would never stop the Irish celebrating Pagan festivals, so he stole those festivals and Christianised them. He also took the most important pagan God, the Sun, and put it, as a circle, on the intersection of the Christian cross. Thus inventing the Celtic Cross.
@@tomjohnston1220 not the only festival the church stole
The perfect informational summary! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
It is also once called "Walbugisnachten" the Witches Night by the Ancient Germanic folk
regarding the meaning of the word Samhain. Instead of assembly, I think it translates more correctly as "reunion".
The 4 quarters of the year festivals were times people got together for big meetings and shared news, had celebrations for important deaths, and probably made big announcements or plans.
So it functions as a reuinion of the people, a reuinion between spirits, a reuinion between the winter and summer months.
Love this interpretation. Thanks for sharing!
Liked and Subscribed! That was great, looking forward (or back) to more!
Thanks for watching (and for this lovely comment)! Glad to have you aboard!
excellent summary. just saw your post and it is another year past, but here I am watching. well done. will look up your book. Maith thú mo chara.
Thank you so much! Appreciate you taking the time to comment
Traditionally it happened on the last full moon I'm October. When winter began
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
That is not why All Saints Day is on 1st November.
@@YorkyOneWhy is it on Nov 1st?
@@TheyForgotMySalad
In the early years the church in Rome celebrated All Saints Day on 13th May.
By 800 the churches in England and Germany were holding the feast on November 1st.
It is not clear as to why they moved the date - but a gloomy November is obviously more appropriate to celebrating dead saints than a sunny May.
The Pope authorised the change in the 830's.
The theory that November 1st was chosen to incorporate the pagan festival of Samhain doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Samhain was not celebrated in England or Germany - and in Ireland where it was celebrated the Irish Church held the feast of All Saints on 20th April (before the move to 1st November).
The Irish Church clearly felt no threat from whatever remained of Samhain.
For some reason the Catholic church and to a lesser extent, other Christian denominations, took great delight in spreading that Halloween myth.
@YorkyOne Point completely missed. He was saying that's what catholic school TAUGHT him. I was unfortunately in Catholic school myself.
Soul cakes is a Catholic tradition meant to remember that you must do as Christ said "to feed the poor" because you do not know when you will die. We remember our own death as we pray for All Souls. The Soul Cakes had a cross shape pressed into them representing Communion received at Mass. These cakes are good deeds for our souls to give as offerings to the poor children.
AMAZING BOOK
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
Depends on how many you take lol
*Sometimes creepy, mostly beautiful. You experience the aliveness of everything around you
9:49 You didn’t add the version of Snap Apple with the candle! 😮
Thanksyou very much. 🎉❤
Thanks for watching!
Treat or treat started as children going from house to house begging for sticks for the bonfires (built to keep the spirits away) according to other sources.
Thank you
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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This is a brilliant video. Just one thing, the word oiche in Irish is pronounced like eeha. You wouldn't hear the c in it. Thanks!
Ah, thank you!
soul cake plz, thx
I specifically sought out this video because I saw where it was removed from some libraries. Now that I've seen the video I do not understand why it was removed😢
Christians. Right wing evangelicals. They’re a fear ridden group.
The mummers go back to the 10th century. They would go house to house to play dice 🎲 and other games , in complete silence during holiday times. Playing games in silence, gave us the saying "Mums the words" in other words keep quiet/ keep that to yourself 😊
What music are you using? I like it.
So it's mostly tunes I recorded (live) with my old Celtic/folk band, one them being Tam Lin’s reel. You can listen to both the fiddle tunes here m.soundcloud.com/thebardofboston/sets/devaneys-goat-live-2009-2010
And I'm pretty sure I stuck my original, atmospheric electric piano tune "Duel of the Druids" in there as well, available here:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/3ID5N3zxA7tR1zdvabCmcT
Amazon: amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0CTJ86DH2
Apple: music.apple.com/us/album/celtic-grab-bag/1728992132
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. 😢
great vid
In Ireland you wouldn't say trick or treat, you'd say "Help the Halloween Party" and would be given fruit etc. not sweets to go back and eat with the group of friends you were going around with and then tell stories of the Sith and Fey like ghost stories.
also the next like is 666 so whoever gets that may the fey be ever on you haha
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Check the Scottish and Irish origins of Halloween.
Some feedback on your books. I'll probably pick them up, but pocket books for $25 (Canadian on Amazon) is fairly steep. They have a print on demand version that likely would save you on your overhead. And I hope they're full of little facts and not "factoids" as that means something that sounds true but isn't.
Thanks for the feedback. Full disclosure you can get nearly all of the same content over on IrishMyths.com if you don't want to spend the $ / want to see what type of info you'll find. These aren’t books full of *my* opinions, they're full of summaries/analyses of my research. And I always cite my sources.
P.S. I lived in Canada (Montréal) for six years, lovely country you've got there!
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
It's my understanding that November 1st is the day of the living. The day of the Dead is my birthday, November 2nd. Combined, the days are referred to as the days of the Dead.
Samhain means November. Haloween is Oíche Shamhna
Oidhche Shamhna in Scottish Gaelic! 🏴💙🇮🇪
Right, but the month was named after the festival
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. 👍🧟♂️
People who are fans of studying languages, like to have opinions on the origins of words and languages, they like to know better than anyone else, they have tunnel vision. The narration of this video goes on, way too long, about the word Samhain. Irish people are laid back about the spelling and pronunciation of their language. Different parts of the country use the language in different ways, with different accents, pronunciations, spelling and sometimes even meanings. My village has a slightly different accent and slang to another village, just a mile away. Good luck to AI, trying to mimic Ireland.
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Evil is afraid of its own visage. Hence gargoyles and hiding our faces from the blackness of evil and death.
Samhain is Irish for November.
Yes, the month was named after the festival
Is this a powerful name?
If you are around younger or older Misfits or Danzig fans then maybe or around someone that feels that it is and put faith into the belief it can be, careful how you use this power because irresponsible use leads to The Venom of God.
I enjoyed this video, but the pronunciation of Beltane is NOT "bell-ta-nee" , it is "Bell-tane" with the "a" being long, not the "e". I have never heard it pronounced "Bell-ta-nee" in my 60+ years on this planet until today.
That was my (poor) attempt at pronouncing it in the original Irish: www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/Bealtaine
I live in wales and its annoying that you pronounced it Calon gaive its pronounced calon Gai-ath😂
Common misconceptions.
Samhain came from the Picts, before the celts discovered Scotland.
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.
As a Pagan Pantheist I completely disagree with this comment. It’s a well known fact that christianity is nothing more than a military propaganda scheme created by the Flavian Dynasty Roman Empire era who stole Pagan identities & Spiritual rituals/beliefs to sow together a new man made religion to bring people spread out over the vast areas they conquered to Roman heel. A lot of Pagan documents & historic artifacts were completely destroyed over the centuries (like during the christian crusades for instance) because of the hate that christianity creates & promotes to anyone outside of their falsehood claims. The worshiping of all things in the Universe, of our beautiful Blue Planet 🌏 & the seasons our rotation around the Sun 🌞 & Moon 🌚 brings forth is what Pagan Sabbats like Samhain honors & celebrates!
You really need to do more historical research before you post crap like this!
Samhain always occupies an important place in ancient Irish mythology, whose earliest written text dates to the early 7th century. This and subsequent texts were copies of copies and often had passages in archaic forms of Irish which would date the originals, and the oral traditions they reflected, even earlier. Samhain can safely be assumed to go back 3,000 years. However, if we look at the archaeological record we see Samhain aligned as a quarter day on some very ancient monuments, such as Listoghil in Carrowmore. A skull found inside the monument dates to 3,600 B.C. By the way, the ancient Irish did write down what vibes they associated with the holiday, and yes, it was spooky.
@@johndanielharold3633 While they contain references to Samhain, the oldest Irish texts do not go into detail about Samhain practices, particularly not any that represent clear precursors to later Halloween traditions. As such, beyond the fact that Samhain was an important day (as may be represented by the archaeological finds you mentioned), we can say very little for sure about what the holiday looked like before Christianity; the sources only give us a tantalizingly small glimpse of actual practices, and suggest that it probably had an association with a thinning of the barrier between mortals and the supernatural (so yeah, probably kinda spooky, but not necessarily in the same way).
@@SomasAcademy Samhain´s timeline is obviously extremely ancient, and whatever about the evolution of customs and practices attached to it, some things are very clear : the interdimensional liminality at its very heart - the lighting of communal bonfires - the honouring of the ancestor spirits - and the wearing of grotesque costumes to protect yourself, and especially children, from hungry ghosts.
@@johndanielharold3633 Everything except the last two points, sure. The second to last point is questionable and the last one has no evidence whatsoever.
20:30 And some might say the age of type 2 diabetes.
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😢
You're wrong about the masks.
What the Americans have done is commercialise Samhain.
Why do you blame the americans?
There's a bit of a hole in this theory. Pumpkins are indigenous to the Americas and not Europe. They had to be brought over to Europe from the Americas... so there were no pumpkins till well after the 1500's.
Sounds like you didn't watch the whole video. If you had, you would've learned that the ancient Irish didn't carve pumpkins, they carved turnips and other vegetables. More info here: ruclips.net/video/oHAD7AV7xio/видео.htmlsi=wCkw-4X7WAO-wNSW
The irish are from Spain and Portugal celtic tribe lol
Go back far enough and everybody is from the sea.
@@rudithedog7534 really lol were homosapens lol rest of our ansesters were different humans hunter gathers and neolithic farmers lol maybe u were a fish at one pint u never know lol
So Halloween is a extortion racket.🤣
All British and Irish come from Europe lol
I was concerned you were going to mispronounce Samhain. 😂
That would have been quite embarrassing-especially since I also made this video! ruclips.net/video/Jg46Dx5F1W4/видео.htmlsi=FIz8Khqo1VqwQ2ww
(Although to be fair apparently I mispronounced "pronunciation")
@@irishmyths I didn't see that one. But the sad thing is a lot of youtubers don't care to look up correct pronunciations. It's annoying.
On the 31st October I'll be celebrating Jesus as the Light of the World
To each their own. I will be celebrating the 31st of October by being a ghost pirate!
I'm not sure he'd appreciate his body being stuffed with a candle. Stick to turnips.
Jesus Christ should be celebrated everyday
@@taylorplain2063 ew, gross
I'll stick with forest fairies instead of sky fairies... thx
Not dominant here in Australia, most of us scorn that ridiculous plastic n sugar waste of money and more damaging crap put into the sea
It took 24 seconds for this video to lose my interest.
Then go ahead and do whatever takes your interest. Nobody cares. 😅🤷🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
I will always pronounce it as Sam-Hain, not Saw-Win. Sam-Hain sounds way better.
Giving candy to kids