What Is Samhain? What to Know About the Ancient Pagan Festival That Came Before Halloween. 5 minute read. By Cady Lang. October 30, 2018 10:30 AM EDT.

Samhain or Samhuinn, pronounced sow-wen, is the pagan precursor to Halloween, a festival honoring the end of the harvest, the onset of winter and the beginning of the “dark half” of the Celtic ...

Samhain was the pivotal point of the Celtic Pagan new year, a time of rebirth – and death. "Pagans had three harvests: Lammas, harvest of the corn, on 1 August; the one of fruit and vegetables ...

Samhain: Pagan celebration honoring the dead (pronounced SOW-in) By Susan Fornoff , Chronicle Staff Writer Oct 29, 2008. Once a year, for the holiday of Samhain, Deborah Cooper, makes a martini ...

Its roots lie firmly in the old pagan holiday of Samhain, which - along with May 1, Beltane - was regarded as one of the most important days of the year.

THE origins of Halloween can be traced back to a Celtic festival called Samhain. But what was it, when did it take place, and what happened? What is Samhain? In the Celtic days, Britain was a Pagan… ...

Many Wiccans, Druids and other pagans across the globe will be marking the beginning of their spiritual new year with the two-day festival of Samhain. The most widely observed pagan festival ...

Its roots lie firmly in the old pagan holiday of Samhain, which - along with May 1, Beltane - was regarded as one of the most important days of the year.