The TRUE History of Samhain (it's not what you think)
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- No! Samhain is NOT a "Celtic Fire Festival", as contemporary Wiccans and Pagans often believe. That's a view popularized by James Frazer and John Rhys, which lacks historical support and evidence. I explain in this video the true history of Samhain based on the historical research by Ronald Hutton.
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Hutton, R. 2001. The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain. Oxford University Press. amzn.to/47aY5yN
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00:00 Introduction to Samhain / Halloween
01:53 Support Angela’s Symposium
02:49 The Celtic Festival
04:05 The Christian era in Britain
04:49 The academic evidence
06:10 Early Irish significance disputed
08:23 Anglo-Saxons and Scandanavia
09:18 The ideas of John Rhys and James Frazer
12:56 Wales - Calan Gaeaf
13:44 Halloween night in non-Celtic regions
14:55 Fire festivals in decline
15:06 Hallowmas fires in Scotland are forbidden
18:39 Support Angela’s Symposium
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Your video editing software makes your sound a bit muffled/lower quality. Compare the sound from the Kenneth Anger livestream and the edited version and you can hear a difference... For sometime now the audio hasn't been the best quality.
🧛♀️Thx Angela Nice poppies in the background screen, 🃏
Some fun facts. The term 'bonfire' comes from the direct translation of the Irish name for these fires 'tine cnàmh' which translates to bone fire (bones of the animals killed during the festival were burned). Over time it morphed into bonfire. In Ireland it is still very common to light bonfires on Halloween night despite the fact it has been illegal for many years. Unfortunately it is dying out in some areas
As many probably already know, the costumes people wear, were to trick the fairies and other supernatural beings into thinking you were one of them, hence saving you from harm or their trickery
Jack-o-lanterns served a similar purpose but their origins are a myth about a man called Stingy Jack who tricked the Devil and was cursed to wander the earth with the light from his lantern to guide him. Since pumpkins are not native to Ireland, the original lanterns were carved out of turnips. I suggest Googling some of these turnip lanterns. Much creepier than the pumpkin ones!
I'm growing my first turnips this year! I'm going to carve one.
Very cool. Thank you for sharing!
Why are bon fires illegal? Are they too big or people don't practice fire safety?
@@bluebird3281good question!
Yes, I remember making turnip lanterns for Hallowe'en when I was a kid in the 70s (I am from Scotland). The turnips were awkward to carve and were always scary. The smell of turnip still make me think of Hallowe'en. We also had treacle scones hanging from string to be eaten without hands (very sticky and messy) and dunking for apples.
Happy Samhain y'all !! WE MADE IT !!
Woot woot!
Better Samhain than Mythmas aka Chris myth.
Isn't Samhain when the sun reaches 15 degrees of scorpio (Nov 6)
@chuck0231 very confusing I know 😅
@@chuck0231 I don't know. I just prefer the witchy name
Happy Samhein ,Dr Angela Puca and to all of us Pagans and Neopagans. Dr Puca always enlightens us.
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Like any old tradition, it is our duty as modern practitioners to keep it alive to it's roots yet adapt it respectfully to the modern challenges of our new world. Thank you Dr. Angela for furthering the studies into the practices of our ancestors :) Happy Samhain
November is known as Mis Du (Black Month) in Cornish and Breton. Linguistic evidence suggests that the Brythons adopted the Roman calendar after occupation. Prior to that they may have used some form of luni-solar reckoning which would have made Samhain a movable feast. Good overview, thanks! 🧙
🧙♂️ I particularly appreciate the accurate captioning, I have horrendous ADHD and subtitles help me follow along SO much, especially when there is so much great information! Great video!
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We have an interesting autumn tradition called Dziady. In my part of family it died out, but our great aunts and their part of the family still follow it. At one night around start of November (I think it's normatively Friday before the 8th of November for Orthodox and 2th of November for Catholics, but the date varied depending on location) people would place an empty plate of food on the table, for the visiting spirits of dead relatives.
When I started university, I lived with my great aunt Sonia, because I couldn't get student lodging, and she actually observed that: she did put another plate when calling us to the table. There were no other differences from a normal day, just one more plate at the table. (I don't remember what date she observed, though.)
I think it's similar because it's also about an autumn night when borders between our world and the other world became thinner, so deceased people can visit their families.
Went to look it up-interesting tradition-bits of various fall/winter holidays as we know them now. Thanks! I’m watching Nov 1, so I think I may start a new home tradition of the extra plate!
Are you from Ukraine, Belarus or somewhere in the area? We used to have Dziady in Poland too (in fact, that's the title of one of the most important theatrical plays in our history). For non-Slavic people here, Dziady literally means Forefathers :-) . I think it's been completely substituted by the All Saints' Day, but in the play (from the 19th century) a ceremony is described where villagers gather at night in a chapel, set out food and drink and call out to wandering souls to tell them if they need anything. The tradition with the spare plate is something we do for Christmas Eve and it has many explanations (that it's for the Baby Jesus, or for a stranger that might stray into your house, or for the ancestors).
@@AW-uv3cb I'm half-Ukrainian half-Belarusian. But Dziady is observed on the Belarusian part of my family, not on the Ukrainian.
That corresponds to the solar cross quarter if it was around the 7th/8th of november. That's legit Celtic stuff right there. THere's burial sites where the sun aligns perfectly on that day. That was the original Samhain. Those witches pretending to be edgy on a full more or October 31st don't know what they're doing. Also supposedly the thinning of the veil could be used for good or ill and even Christians would practice divination in those times (yes, Christians practiced magic at some point. So did jews. Casting lots is a form of divination. Witchcraft is the use of a false god in Judeo-Christian lore and that's all but forgotten.)
Happy Halloween Angela. You’re easily my favorite sorceress! ❤
Truly love all that you've explained and pin-pointed regarding Samhain's nuanced origin that nowadays makes it a day worthy to feist in all the ways possible. Happy Halloween Angela🧙🏻♂️🎃🔥
Glad you enjoyed it!
Gotta love how informative and fun these videos are 🧙♀️
Thank you SO much for this video, and others! New subscriber here! Your videos fascinate me! You are simply lovely to listen to! Happy Samhain to all! ❤
I found your channel by accident and was fascinated by it. thanks for this video. I wish more people knew about you and supported you. Happy Samhain 🧙🏻♀️🌙
🧙🏻♀️Thank you so much! So glad I found your channel-evidence & scholarly based or cited information is so hard to come by on these platforms. I sincerely appreciate the time & effort you put in, & for sharing it for free! Happy Halloween / Samhain! 🎃🧡🖤
She's still wrong but yanno 🤷 when it comes to Irish traditions
🧙 thank you for thoughtfully putting together this information for us! So interesting and it’s always good to learn the roots of these holidays.
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My favorite part is always the loud 80s rock at the end.
Fascinating and thorough, as usual.
Informative. 🧙♀
Glad you think so!
The curated transcript is now available to all symposiasts at www.innersymposium.study/?p=4983 Also, there is a quiz on the video here www.innersymposium.study/?page_id=4830. 🧙♀🪄🧙
Grazie mille per i tuoi contenuti e per il bellissimo modo in cui hai presentato.
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Thank you for the fantastic work you share! 🧙♀️💗
🧙🏻💜 Loved this! Thank you very much!
You are so welcome!
15:28 🧙♀My favorite episode of Tales from the Darkside called "The Cutty Black Sow" has a plot point around this specific tradition.
I was about to post about that
Great wrap up as usual. 🧙
Thank you 🤗
Thank you, Dr. Angela!
😃 Hi, Dr. Puca! Happy to see you again! I love your newsletter! 😃
😃 This video is super interesting, thanks to you I learn more about this fascinating topic! 😃 And about your nickname as well. 😁
😃 Blessed and happy Samhain to you, Dr. Puca! See you next time! 😃
Thank you! You too!
Super interesting stuff! Thank you! 🧙
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video as always! Happy Halloween! 🧙🏽♀️
Thank you for the video very enlightening.
Have a Blessed Samhain! 🧙♀️
🧙♀️ Fabulous, great info!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video 🧙🏼🧙♀️
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾A Fun & Fantastic set of Information!..👍🏾
Thanks for that!
🧙♀️ Thank you for your work!
Angela, you are great❤!
🧙ty for your (as always) wonderful content.
Glad you enjoy it!
Goblin Night!! Love it!!🧙♂
Madd Tatted Shaman here!! Samhain 2023 is upon us!!! Time for ritual, meditation, manifestation!!!
🧙♀ thank you very much - very informative!!!
You are so welcome!
🧙♂🧙♀ Thanks for the great info.
🧛♂️ Happy Samhain!
Don't know how do witch emote. Enjoyed video and learned. Thank you.
Your point of multiple peoples with their celebrations is right on. Celtic Samhain is true but only one of many paths. Great Video.
Angela, when I first saw your name and didn't know better, I wondered if it was a pseudonym alluding to the Púca, so I got a wee chuckle when you mentioned that😆. Cheers, and Samhain shona daoibh!
I love it!
👻🧙♂️🎃 Happy Spooky Season❣️
Amazing video! I learned so much! ♒🍄🕸(can't find it, so no witch emoji for me😅😅😅)
👻📥📤 Dr Puca, I can't find a witch to post, but I replaced it with a ghost to honor the times of the thin veil. The IN and OUT boxes to represent the tribal leaders who met at Samhain for administrative purposes. 😂
Thank you for educating us on the real meaning and purposes of this time.
Great video! I would add, however, that the Christian celebration of the dead, All Saints, Day that became associated with Samhain was likely acknowledging a theme that already existed in Samhain. Otherwise, there would have been no need to move it in the 9th century, from its previous date in the spring which covered the Roman ancestor celebration called Lemuria.
I think it all goes back to Inanna rising out of the underworld with "zombies" and going around to visit cities in Sumer. Hence, the idea that scary things are happening.
@@watermelonlalala I'd look for Proto-Indo-European roots first, but ya never know.
Except Ireland didn't move All Saint's day in the 9th century. That happened on the continent and England.
@@1cruzbat1 Samhain wasn’t unique to Ireland, we have folkloric evidence across the Celtic and post-Celtic world under various names. The oldest, possibly, being the Coligny calendar in 1c BCE in Gaul.
I would highly recommend the poem Samhain by Timothy Grimm found in the book Witches, Wolves, Haints, & Whores. 🧙
Hope everyone had a good Samhain🎃🔥 Watching on the Day of the Dead. Thank you for the background! 🧙🏻♀️♥️✌️
You left out the tradition of keeping Jack O Lantern lit till midnight or Sam will get you. 😂😂😂 Seriously great video. 🧙♀️
Youre absolutely right. It was a harvest festival.
🧙♂ :) Excellent lecture. And well done attempting the Irish and Welsh pronunciations!
Wow, thank you!
🍕🍕🍕🍕 (no witch imojies to select from)...figured a pizza wedge would suffice 🤘😋
Even better 😂
Thanks!
Thank you!
I just came across your page and this was the first video I have seen. I like it a lot and signed up for your newsletter. Thank you for this info
in UK now we have bonfires on the 5th of November to celebrate the failure of Guy Fawlkes' attempt to burn down the houses of parliament.. bit of a coincidence,, like easter and xmas
In german speaking circles it´s sometimes called Frau Holle or Holle-Fest. And celebrated on the scorpion back moon.
Blessed Samhain 🎃🧙♀️
Was just looking for something like this recently!! Perfect timing; thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
My favorite nominee for Countess Dracula discussing the history behind Samhein? Stop my beating heart!
Woot! 🧙♀🔮
👻Thank you, a very interesting video and I learned a few new things too. hope you had a Happy Hallowe'en. (Sorry, I couldn't find the witch emoji - she must be off somewhere)
here in the real pagan north it
was the other new year or old
summer vs. new winter (timed by
leaves falling and waters
freezing).
what´s interesting is that here
too it lasted seven days (and
nights, during the time when
the rivers froze) where they
burned fires for the river spirits
(basically it was the end of
the summer fishing season).
also what´s known is that they
asked for an easy winter from the
river totems (whom were the
main gods, ancestors originally).
in some records they also
ate seven times or shouted seven
times (a form of praying here).
it was also done in the home
shrines where they changed the
birch twigs collected in the spring
for spruce twigs for the coming
winter (which tells of the two
way split of the year).
just some small details.. to
summarize in many places here
(uralic areas) it was one of the
two yearly main sacrifice dates
(the other one being in the spring
when the ice melted from the
rivers, river based cultures
they were / still are).
also i want to say that in the
real pagan discourse it´s always
the agricultural customs vs. the
older hunter-gatherer customs
(christianity does not exist
in that paradigm).
ps. evidence is NOT lacking!
(i have over 1000 notes on
autumn alone and i haven´t read
shit)
:)
also if you don´t have a fire
just put on two stoves!
it´s nice to celebrate there
by the warmth, skin on skin
(the real kitchen witchery).
it´s seven days and seven
NIGHTS!
Your ancestors must have had a fascinating story about your surname ❤
So its not what we think?? SMHain! 😅 Thank You then to the rigor and work by Dr Angela Puca for clarifying the origin of Samhain! 🎃 👻 🌌 😈
Happy Halloween!! 🤘😎🤘
🦇🕷🕸 Couldn't find a witch but if you combine these ingredients with the blood of a hanged man on all hallows, maybe a witch will appear.
Thank you. I found this interesting and enlightening. 🧙♀️
I am curious, was old Pagan practices stomped out pretty much entirely and the new Paganism is trying to pick up the threads of the old ways? Or, did practice just go underground all these years and the practices are the same as they always were. I find religious studies very interesting. I think more people should study this. It's quite obvious we are the same.
The emphasis on the Celtic provenance is interesting.
🧙♀️Blessed Samhain!
thx
I've always wondered where the "Celtic New Year" thing came from. So it was Rhys! (By the way it's pronounced "rheess" not "rice".)
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I never rely on the capricious algorithm...
I sacrifice goats to appease it, but i never rely on it
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🧙♀️I really enjoyed this video!
I'm so glad!
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Thank you for this! I'm American, and I've always wondered about the origins of Samhain (as well as how to pronounce it because I've been saying it wrong since forever now). I don't practice European based spiritual systems, but I've always wondered what the hype is around Halloween since Christians always demonized it. Thankfully I came across your channel and you now have a new subscriber. 😁🧙🏿♂️🧛🏿🧟♂️
Then I would not follow this person because she is wrong. If you're interested in Irish traditions, look up Lora O'Brien or the Irish Pagan School.
@@susanhelwig1468in which details is Angela wrong? I mean the TikTok witch aesthetics can be off-putting, but she's a legitimate academic, the decorum is irrelevant.
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So something I don't entirely get here, it sounds like from watching this it's not so much that modern Halloween is rooted in Samhain, but that lingering Samhain traditions potentially influenced and added to the celebrations and activities held around All Saint's/All Souls day? It sounds like the association with the dead mostly comes from the christian side of things and Samhain inherited that vibe?
Also in this video you say at one point that there's no evidence Samhain marked the Celtic New Year, but then again later you say it did. So which is it?
The term "Celtic Fire Festival" refers to specific things. Samhain is one of those festivals. That doesn't mean that's the only way it was celebrated, but to say it's not a Celtic Fire Festival is false. Also, Nov.1st is the Celtic New Year. It is a festival of the new year. That wasn't the main aspect of what Samhain was about, but to say it is not a new year festival is also false. It happens on the Celtic New Year, that is when Samhain is observed. Every festival considered to be Celtic are subject to multiple regional differences and such. When people today attempt to explain them, it doesn't mean that is all they are. What it means is that these are commonalities of the festival. These are generalized traditions. The ideas presented about these festivals hold up under scrutiny. The Celts were not a monolith, so there will always be alternate views and things to discover. You don't have to be contrarian to explore and showcase other unique aspects of cultures. I am a Druid that works with an evidence based reconstructionist group. The things that you say Samhain is not are aspects that I do observe. There's more to it than that, but it is incorrect to say these things are false. Also, when you talk about how it was practiced in Ireland and such as if what you share is the real observances is dishonest. In Ireland itself the practices changed quite a bit over time. It depends on when you're looking at. You shouldn't make things sensational at the expense of truth.
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Loved it and i learnt so much 🎃🧙♀🧹
Halloween and November 1st The Day of the Dead is in remembrance of the great flood. When else in history has so many people perished at one time in one event? It is now something far different. Blessings to you
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Witch emojii. Many thanks.
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🧙♀️🧙♂️ Great research!
Thank you!
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