HALLOWEEN, or ALL Hallows Eve, Is the name given to the 31st of October as the Roman Catholic vigil of Hallowmas or All Saints' Day. Considered the eve of the Catholic festival, Halloween was a mixture of an ancient Pagan Celtic worship of the festival of SanHain, Pronounced Sam-Ween, or San-Ween. The two chief characteristics of ancient Sanhain festivle were the lighting of bonfires and the belief that of all nights in the year this is the one during which ghosts and witches are most likely to wander abroad. The Druids held their great autumn festival and lighted fires in honour of the Sun-god, the god of death, and giving thanks for the harvest. Further, it was a Druidic belief that on the eve of this festival Saman, lord of death, called together the wicked souls that within the past twelve months had been condemned to inhabit the bodies of animals. Thus it is clear that the main celebrations of Hallowe'en were purely Celtic, Pagan Druidical, and this is further proved by the fact that in parts of Ireland the 31st of October was, and even still is, known as Oidhche Shamhna, " Vigil of Saman." On the Druidic ceremonies were grafted some of the characteristics of the Roman festival in honour of Pomona held about the 1st of November, in which nuts and apples, as representing the winter store of fruits, played an important part. When the Catholic Jesuits went to Scottland and "Baptised" the Pagans, they incorperated their pagan festival of San-hain (pronounced SAN-WEEN) with their Hallowed Eve, making HALLOW-WEEN, thus allowing darkness to mingle with light.
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