Healthy Home Newsletter October Volume XVII Issue 10

October 2019 - Volume XVII, Issue 10
Halloween’s Irish Origins
Did you know that Halloween is popular in Ireland? In fact, Ireland
is where Halloween is said to have originated. In the Irish language it
is known as Oíche Shamhna or “Samhain Night.”
Pre-Christian Celts had an autumn festival, Samhain, “End of
Summer,” which was a pastoral and agricultural “fire festival” or feast
when the dead revisited the mortal world and large communal
bonfires would hence be lit to ward off evil spirits. It is alleged that the
Irish continued to practice their deep-rooted ancient pagan rites well
after the arrival of Christianity in the mid sixth century.
Pope Gregory IV standardized the date of All Saints’ Day, or All
Hallows’ Day, on November 1 in the name of the entire Western
Church in 835. As it now began at sunset, the holiday coincided
exactly with Samhain.
Although there is no official documentation that Gregory had
Samhain in mind when selecting this date, it seems consistent with
the common practice of leaving pagan festivals and buildings intact
while overlaying a Christian meaning.
While Celts might have been content to move All Saints’ Day from
the previous date of April 20th, they were unwilling to give up their
pre-existing April festival of the dead and continued to celebrate
Samhain.
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Resources to
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