What is Samhain? Irish Folklore and History
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2021
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This ancient ritual was the pre cursor to what we now know today as Halloween.
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Honestly, this channel is a gem. I wouldn't mind him crossing over to all kinds of different cultures, besides just Finnish. The way he provides context and nuance is very rare to find in UA-cam. Slaintë ná oíche shamhna shona daoibh!
There used to be a similar harvest festival in Finnish culture, called Kekri. Had lots of similar beliefs attached to it; feast where long dead ancestors were also invited, bonfires and masks. Sadly, industrialization and urbanization has killed the tradition.
There are some attempts to revive the tradition. Also, pyhäinpäivä is still largely observed, though people have kinda forgotten the ancestral worship part. Regardless, a lot of people still take candles to the graves of their relatives and loved ones, even if just out of a habit. Apart from Christmas, pyhäinpäivä is definitely the best time to visit a Finnish cemetery because they are filled with candles. 😊
No, it haven't. In Kajaani/Kainuu in East-North Finland we still celebrate Kekri. ua-cam.com/video/pc5G09F3XtY/v-deo.html
@@Silveirias Then again... Precisely that grave visit embody that worshipping of the ancesters. That's why it's made. And that's also one way to transfer information of the ancestors to the younger generation.
In Finnish new pagan practices kekri or samhain is highly regarded festival. :)
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I find this very interesting. Just found your great channel and love it. But what I wanted to say: I am from Germany and I just realized, that we have something like this festival over here, too - but it is a christian fest. It is called St. Martin and it is celebrated with a march through the town with music and children having made lanterns, colorful lights the carry like torches. Torches are carried, too. The march ends at a great bonfire. After that, the children take off and ring at every door, singing some specific songs and showing their lights. For that, they get sweets and candy. It is not celebrated on October 31th (in recent years, halloween swapped over to us and children get candy a second time 😂), but it is celebrated around november 11, so right around samhain, too. I guess, it is another example of the christian faith taking over pagan festivals ans rituals and convert them to their own mythology.
And now, I guess I binge watch your videos! Greetings from Germany, Chris
I found your channel by accident as I am holding a meeting about this holiday and wanted to gain more knowledge. and it gave me sense of sureness about other sources I had as they stories where so weird for me as know European, but you explain very well
THANK YOU FOR THESE AMAZING VIDEOS. I'M from Finland and I'm very much into a Nordic
Mythology and Viking era is at least my hobby and actually it's more than that.
But thank you. Keep it going!
Have a good Samhain. When I was a kid in Ireland Bonfires everywhere this night. Today you still see people gather around where they are aloud to have them. Its still special here.
Not actually an Irish tradition.
Only found in the Protestant North (via Sottish immigration) and in Dublin ( and only from the mid-20th century).
Ive watched almost every video of this channel within 2 days. Wonderful stuff.
Thank you, this is very interesting.
For Other cultures such as the norse and egyptians October was a very holy time of the year as well.
Maybe every culture wich thinkd that this time of the year is holy etc did it because of the harvest?
@@djvallux Harvest also, Autumn is when everything in nature dies so during this time dead relatives ect. Are very much involved in celebrations and such
@@pyromorph6540 true true
Finland has Kekri which is from mikkelinpäivä to pyhäinmiestenpäivä. It has similiar aspects.
I was starting to think that this sounds to be about the same time as Kekri used to be in Finland and then when you talked more, there came up more similarities; dead ancestors, fires, and masks :) Really interesting stuff, thanks. Wikipedia even seems to direct to Samhain when you look up Kekri :)
"Kekri customs
Ancestor veneration
The remembrance of the dead features heavily in traditional Kekri observances. Traditionally, each family invited the spirits of their deceased relatives to return during the Kekri feast, making the first part of Kekri formal and serious. According to E. Castrén's account, the head of the household welcomed the spirits in at the edge of his yard on the evening before the feast day. They were then led to the sauna, which had been heated and cleaned for their use. A table with votive offerings of meat and drink had also been placed there. On the evening after the feast day, the host ushered the spirits out of the yard while baring his head and pouring a libation of brandy and beer.[4]
Masked visitors
On the second day of Kekri, people traditionally paid visits to friends and neighbors, dressed up as various types of masked characters, referred to as kekritärs or kekripukkis (cf. souling). The masked visitors would demand hospitality, threatening to break the oven if their requests were not heeded. These Kekri characters of the past are commonly viewed as a predecessor to Finland's modern-day Santa Claus, Joulupukki.
Divination
As Kekri is a turn of the year celebration, insuring good luck and a successful harvest in the following year is of primary importance. There are many rites concerned with divining the fortune of the coming year. One such custom involves pouring molten tin into cold water. The shape of the cooled tin was interpreted to predict future events. Another custom involves counting the sticks in the oven or hearth, and deducing the number of deaths in the coming year from the number of missing sticks the following morning.[4]
Other customs
Traditionally, the end of the harvest season has been celebrated with abundant feasts, which often have included lamb roast as one of the courses served. Various kinds of magic, spells, beliefs and myths too have also been an important part of old Kekri traditions, as well as bonfires, especially in certain parts of Finland.[5]"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kekri_(festival)
Yeah, definitely the same festival, but local festivalities vary a lot. Remembrance of the dead is also present, but that mask thing isn't really that much present in finnish festivalities... It's more like honering ancestors and transferring family information and stories to the next generation.But in American Halloween tricks and horror movies have replaced anecdotes, jokes and family histories...
@@kallejotoksella8743 Not today, but what I have read about Kekri, in the past it was what I gather the one celebration where many masks/characters were used.
@@kallejotoksella8743 I am not sure did my other comment got lost. I was just saying that Kekripukki at least was a long-time very common masked character around Kekri whose job was to see that everybody was ready for winter. Also what I gather the spirits of the dead were important in the old Finnish faith.
At least Wikipedia mentions other characters also on the Finnish side of kekri, but I am not sure how reliable that source is on this subject.
"Kekrin toisena päivänä lähdettiin ”kekriä kiertämään”. Kylissä liikkui seurueita, joissa oli mukana kekripukeiksi tai kekrittäriksi naamioituneita hahmoja ja jotka halusivat taloista kestitystä. Kylän Kaisan paimentamana saattoi kulkueeseen kuulua myös Runsauden haltijatar, jonka iso rinta oli täynnä nännejä. Ilmeisesti merkittävin hahmo oli kekripukki, sarvekas ja pelottavan näköiseksi tarkoitettu olento. Kekripukki voitiin koota niin, että karhuntaljan tai vastaavan alla käveli kaksi miestä, kauhat sarvina, kirves kuonona ja pitkä varsiluuta häntänä. Olkia, turkkia ja naamareita käytettiin myös tässä rakennelmassa. Kylän Kaisaksi puettiin kylän pisin tai komein mies. Hän vartioi pukkia. Pukki vieraili usein myös nuutinpäivänä, jolloin sitä kutsuttiin nuuttipukiksi."
Very informative, short and sweet. Cheers.
I think in finland there was kinda same (in some parts) festival called "kekri". Hope ya have good halloween :D
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Coming back to this video when Halloween is again approaching
Great video
Just came back from a game night-Halloween party. Have to do what you can to keep celebrations going!
Thanks so much for sharing! Happy Halloween 🎃 👻 🔥🤍
Awesome video !
Omg I am obsessed with your accent. I could literally listen to you tell stories of old all day. Thank you for being a story teller.
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Nice video man, thanks
Happy samhain halloween irish finn bro
Samhain is the celtic New Year and it was celebrated on the 11th new moon after the winter solstice. It is a diffrent date every year.
Samhain actually just means ‘November’. Its the beginning of November
May Thirteenth was the date of Halloween
@@Yan-tz9pnand November means 9
Wow thank you for mentioning may 13 th
My toddler and I celebrated Samhain and will until tomorrow night also, we don't actually have a hearth, but I've been manning this cauldron fire all day/night, Mini fires work all the sane, candles may be used, kerosene lamps, whatever you choose. The point is to Welcome in the dark half of the year, the slower season, the death(end) of the year , the sleepy season. Blessed be, Blessed Samhain
We named our ram Pooka. Our vet exclaimed, "now how'd you get such a silly name, poor guy?!'
I wonder if that fire ever went out. The atmosphere must have dropped hard.
Literally sounds like coming back from a music festival
I'm looking for that monster's video you did in the description box!
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In Cornish its kalan gwav- sames as welsh and breton- meaning the calendar date or first day of winter. Its the counterpoint of May's Eve which is the beginning of the summer. These traditions were passed by early British and Irish Christians into the Germanic world to Walpurgis/ Valborgs ( Werburgh's) night also marked by bonfires.
The original date of Halloween was May Thirteenth
I have a genuine question. I have seen multiple sources say Samhhain is when the welcomed in the dark half of the year. But wouldn't that technically be the Fall Equinox? That is when daylight starts to get shorter, right, and Samhain was celebrated halfway between the equinox and Solstice?
Fuck Halloween! Welcome Kekri!
Did they have beacons ?
911/119 = 1030
Slainte
Maybe the Creatures are just Human traffickers kidnapping kids on halloween :D
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Halloween bonfires are a dublin thing its not really all over ireland.Bonfire Night is usually in may in the west and south
I miss the old celtic ways that's why I still refer to Halloween as Samhain
Anyways “Oíche Shamhna Shona Daoibh”
Your accent is so close tot the Canadian East Coast.
My fiancee an i are to have our marriage on that day with hand fastening, best way to have my ancestors have food, drinks and be merry.
This video was not about Finland, by a long shot. But the Celts are a fascinating people in their own right; l have long been very much interested in them, specifically because they, their age-old culture, and their languages, have always been extremely influential in what became the United States. They also provide the origin of many traditions that were co-opted into Christianity.
'The Celts provided the origin of many traditions that were co-opted into Christianity'.
Such as?
Such as Christmas, which, the way it is celebrated today, developed largely influenced by the Celts. Hallowe'en is largely a Celtic invention.@@Wotsitorlabart
@@davestrasburg408
How is Christmas 'Celtic'?
Please explain.
And Halloween is patently a combination of Samhain (the spirits), Christian All Saints and All Souls (the dead) plus a big dollop of Hollywood.
is the fekkin audio clippin
Could be that the track I use has little breaks in between it 🤷🏼♂️
check 2:06 for example
and 08
clipping means overdrive/distortion
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Michael myers.