What many forget, is that the coming Samhain is actually the Celtic New Year... sure, we all know of the Chinese New Year, and some of the Ethipian... but Halloweens origin is as the Celtic New Year... writingsinrhyme/index.php/samhain-celtic-new-year/ Stories of ghost and traditions of masks come from beliefs that as with the Witching Hour - the last hour of the day to the next - the last day of the year was a time when the veil between the living and the dead was at its thinnest, and the dead came back to look on the living. The spirits of bad intent could also cross over, and to protect themselves, people wore masks to confuse the ghosts... apparently!!!! You cant be up to the Irish (and the Scots and the Manx too - its a tradition across all the Gaelic nations)
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 06:25:05 +0000
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