So the Celts would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off evil spirits and ghosts.Īfter the invasion and Roman conquest, around 47 AD, Samhain merged with 2 Roman festivals, one of which was Feralia, a day towards the end of October when Romans commemorated the their dead. They also believed that on the night before the new year (i.e 31 October), the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped. The Celts associated the bleakness of winter (e.g bare forests) with human death. Samhain, was celebrated on their new year on November 1.The festival marked the end of summer and the time of harvesting crops, but it also meant the beginning of increasing dark, and cold as winter arrived. Halloween's origins spring from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, practiced over 2000 years ago by the Celts living in the areas now known as Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France.
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