The History of Samhain and Halloween!
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- The history of Halloween goes back thousands of years to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. It was celebrated halfway between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice, it started on October 31st at dusk, and probably went for three days. It was a celebration of the transition from the lighter half of the year, to the darker half. There’s a bit of mystery surrounding Samhain but we know that the Ancient Celtic priests known as Druids would light a new bonfire after everyone had extinguished their hearths at the beginning of the festival, and then onto the bonfire, they would throw animal bones from animals that had been sacrificed (this is where you get the word bonfire, from bone-fire).
When Christianity arrived in Ireland in the 5th century CE, the Christians found it easier to convert people to their faith by incorporating some of the Pagan celebrations into the Catholic calendar, and that’s exactly what happened with Samhain! All Saints Day, also known as All Hallow’s Day, which was initially observed on May 13th was moved to November 1st, and then November second became All Souls Day which was used to absorb elements of Samhain that couldn’t be absorbed into All Hallows Day. The evening before All Hallow’s Day, All Hallows Evening (also known as All Hallow's Eve), eventually became known as Halloween.
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0:00 Introduction
1:32 History of Samhain
4:10 History of All Hallow's Eve
6:19 Guy Fawkes Day
7:19 The History of Halloween
10:43 Outro
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What is your favourite tradition during the spooky season?
Scary Movies!
Watching Kelly on WHE telling us about the history of Halloween!
@@archstanton4365 I have a feeling thats a popular tradition! Love it!
Reading Edgar A Poe stories, watching a nightmare before Christmas and trying to find halloween docs I haven't seen yet. Yours was great and I look forward to checking out the rest of the channel👻💙
Turnip Bashing😜👍
My favorite thing about Halloween for me, as a Dane... I would say it is the unity that it brings to us all, almost as much as Xmas does. And a strong second, is the music that is produced for this day alone. There's just something magical about all hallows eve, that i just adore. Thank you for a great video.
Thank you for sharing! We hope you have a great Halloween. 😊
Great research. Thanks for doing this. It's always nice learning new things.
Thanks for watching! Glad you're learning new things!
I am not a big fan of Halloween but as a kid I loved seeing everyone dressed up
Seeing all the costumes is definitely a highlight. Thanks for watching!
Carved turnips can be really creepy and frightening. It’s too bad they are no longer used.
It makes sense that pumpkins would become the norm since they're easier carve, but the turnips are definitely more creepy!
I'm on a Facebook group, and some modern day Pagans, still calve turnips.
Neepie lanterns as they were called in Scotland were murder to carve out. The smell of burning turnip is unforgettable. Such happy memories.
Great delivery, and great information on these days of the thinning veil 🌑🍁✨
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia I absolutely did, so comprehensive 👌🏽 It’s such a transformative season… I’ll be doing lots of candle magic through Winter 🕯
LOKAH SAMASTAH SUKHINO BHAVANTU is a Sanskrit phrase that translates to "may all beings everywhere be happy and free and may the thoughts words and actions of my own life contribute in some way towards that happiness and freedom for all" 💚👽🛸🐱🐶🐄🐷🐔🐳🐬🦜🦚🍀🍄🌎
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Did you know it is really about crossing the pre-perihelion of the Taurid Meteor Stream? And it use to be The Five Unlucky Dreadful Days before the New Year began and goes way back to Gobekli tepe which with the Precession of the Vernal Equinox would have happened in May. From The Deep Ocean Above
Thanks for this lesson!
Glad it was helpful!
Lovely
Dressing up, trick or treat, the pranks, & carving turnips / pumpkin's . 🎃🍂🍁🔥🕸️🕷️🍬⚰️
Thanks for watching! And we hope you have a happy Halloween. 🎃
First time I ever heard of Samhain was from the episode of The Real Ghostbusters "When Halloween was forever".
Happy halloween 🎃
Happy (belated) Halloween! 🎃
For me Halloween in US is a day of carving pumpkins, appreciating kids (and Adults) in their magical costumes and characters in home and have fun with creepy, dark, fearful things. The Indian Diwali festival also falls a week before Halloween on no-moon day. The veil between worlds become thin so dark and light can communicate.
Wonderful. Thanks for sharing, Susmita. 🙂
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I do too.
Thanks for the most thorough explanation of the real All Hollows Day of all the others that there are explained but the real emphasis is that it is the evoking of the spiritual in a sense of an equivocative manner, wrongful, evil, unknowingly doing that which is the result of one seeking answer without knowing the end result and finding a response of contrary to sane and continuing to seek that with a desire, since it all has to do with death, the contrary of life, the living.
You're welcome. 🙂
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My only Critic is connecting Guy Fawkes Day/Night to Halloween
True. They really have nothing to do with each other.
Thank you for your nice vedio. Some people say Halloween has been around for about 6,000 years and others say Halloween started about 2,000 years ago. Which one is right?
You're very welcome. 🙂I think it depends on what you view as the origin of Halloween. Is it the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain? Or the more recent All Hallows' Eve that was established in the 7th century?
@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia I'd like to know when the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain started and why most scholars agree that Halloween originated some 2,000 years ago.
@@sangeonahn9155 Two hills in the Boyne Valley were associated with Samhain in Celtic Ireland, Tlachtga and Tara. Tlachtga was the location of the Great Fire Festival which begun on the eve of Samhain (Halloween). Tara was also associated with Samhain, however it was secondary to Tlachtga in this respect.
The entrance passage to the Mound of the Hostages on the Hill of Tara is aligned with the rising sun around Samhain. The Mound of the Hostages is 4,500 to 5000 years old, suggesting that Samhain was celebrated long before the first Celts arrived in Ireland about 2,500 years ago.
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It would be good to know sources to substantiate the claims made. It seems improbable that there is evidence that is direct rather than indirect and susceptible to generous amounts of interpretation.
Halloween is like my Christmas 👹
Halloween 🎃 came from Ireland
Halloween 3 Season of the witch
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Hard to hear when the sound is low and you have distracting music in the background.
I had to watch this in school 0/10
Your data is inaccurate. The pagans who were forced to convert or be murdered still continued to worship in many of the same ways which the clergy couldn't STOP and so WHITE-WASHED into Christianity. What about the verse in Numbers that says "Don't worship me as the other people do"? Doesn't mean anything to you Christians, obviously, because you have Christmas, undeniably pagan from Northern Europe, but before that you got rid of Passover for Oestre ("eeester") the Roman Pagan springtime fertility festival. Weddings--cake, flowers, vows, and especially rings--all PAGAN. But Christians get their knickers knotted every feckin' October about a festival that makes fun of death, that illustrates overcoming DEATH. Overcoming death--hmm. Where have we heard that before?
Unfortunately, there is very little evidence that pagans in general were able to continue celebrating pagan festivals after the public version of the latter were abolished. Popular superstitions certainly continued, but whether these rose to the level of actual religious observance is questionable. I'm all for reviving pagan religious observance, but it is a revival, not an unbroken group tradition. Solitary practitioners could be another story.
Samhain is a movable feast day and historically was associated with the culmination of the Pleiades. It was never fixed at 31. October.
There is no historical evidence supporting the idea that the Celts ever donned any type of costume/animal pelts at Samhain (or any other time) to ward off spirits - that's a much later idea based more on folk-lore than historical fact.
All Saint’s Day/ All Hallows Eve developed completely independently of Samhain. To state it briefly, the date of 1. November for All Saint's Day was practiced in continental Europe _long_ before the date was formerly fixed by the RCC to November 1st, and _long_ before said change got to what is now the UK & Ireland; which was _centuries_ after the time of Druids and Samhain proper. The church did not change any date, affecting all of Western Christendom to accommodate a small group of Christians who lived in what would have been considered at the time a group of islands in the middle of nowhere.
Halloween is a very modern American holiday - it’s traditions date no earlier than the 1920’s or so. It’s a relatively new phenomenon and represents a mix of cultures, capitalism, and accommodation.
It's simply not a holiday that has close ties to the ancient past, nor does it have some ‘pagan’ antecedent, nor is a continuation of several ancient customs, as some would have one believe.
To say that Halloween’s connection to Samhain is incredibly tenuous at best would be an overstatement. The connection is just not nearly as strong as some would have one believe.
The only pre-Christian element of Halloween is the apple traditions (bobbing/ducking for apples, etc.), but those are from the Romans (via Pamona), not the Celts.
I'd dig a little deeper using different reference material. Or did you miss the archeological evidence that was mentioned?
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The archeological evidence mentioned was in reference to the fact the Samhain was an autumnal festival. I'm not arguing that - the culmination of the Pleiades occurs right around 7-8 November on the current calendar. Clearly a fall festival.
Might want to rewatch the video & reread your comment @@kavikv.d.hexenholtz3474 . Yes it's a Harvest Festival. Hence Harvest & Hunters moon. Meanwhile I'd like to see @WorldHistoryEncyclopedia response to your 7 babbling paragraphs of capitalism & trying to say Halloween is NOT an ancient tradition.
BTW which calendar are you using since there were so many changes to the christian calenders?? Like the video stated, christians are always changing history to hopefully get the local people to join. Then again with your beliefs we can argue that christmas isn't a christian holiday either.
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I have no idea what you're getting on about. Modern American Halloween developed in the early 1920's. It does not have a pagan antecedent. The only Halloween activity that has pre-Christian roots are the apple traditions (bobbing/ducking for apples, etc.). Those go back to the Roman Pamona, not the Celts. That said, the "pagen-ness" of the activity has been effectively bred out of it for centuries. There are traditions people still do (jack-o-lanterns for example) that date back quite a ways, but the reasons behind them are not 'pagan'. To say that Halloween's connection to Samhain is tenuous at best would be an overstatement.
Al Saints Day was in no way a Christianization of Samhain - the two developed completely independent of each other. The date of 1. November for All Saint's Day was practiced in continental Europe _long_ before the date was formerly fixed by the RCC to November 1st, and _long_ before said change got to what is now the UK & Ireland; which was _centuries_ after the time of Druids and Samhain proper.
Calendar dates are current Gregorian. Not sure what you mean by the last comment - Christmas has pre-Christian antecedents (more than Halloween ever will), but as I mentioned, the "pagan-ness" has been bred out of these holidays for well over 1.000 years.
HERE is your 1st problem @@kavikv.d.hexenholtz3474 : ""The only Halloween activity that has pre-""Christian"" roots are the apple traditions (bobbing/ducking for apples, etc.). "".
PLEASE find better research material besides your "Speaking in Tongues" research sites.
BTW
DAFUQ does this mean: ""but as I mentioned, the "pagan-ness" has been """BRED""" out of these holidays for well over 1.000 years.""
Like I mentioned YOU seriously NEED better research material.