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celticeagle @celticeagle (189833) • Boise, Idaho 31 Oct 24

Five more days. Trump with a one-point lead. Harris lost her New Hampshire lead. Oh my! I guess I will stick to wearing a pumpkin face and dancing around the bond fire. Celebrating the Earth giving forth and us being thankful....

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Interesting Facts About Halloween

celticeagle @celticeagle (189833) • Boise, Idaho 18 Oct 24

Halloween is my favorite holiday. There are so many aspects to this day: the thin veil between this and the other side, Samhain, costumes—it just goes on and on. I have found several interesting facts about it that I wanted to...

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Halloween is Here

celticeagle @celticeagle (189833) • Boise, Idaho 31 Oct 23

Yes, it is finally here. Samhain is tomorrow and actually marks the end of harvest time and the beginning of the dark half of the year. This time of the year is very connected to Irish mythology. There are three other seasonal...

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Samhain Poem

pumpkinjam @pumpkinjam (8876) • United Kingdom 31 Oct 21

Oíche Shamhna Shona Daoibh Happy Halloween Samhain blessings I don't think I ever gave this poem a title. It was originally written in 2013 and, for some reason, has never made it to my poetry blog or website (links to which are...

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Halloween Is Upon Us

celticeagle @celticeagle (189833) • Boise, Idaho 31 Oct 18

As most of us know Halloween began in Ireland as a Celtic festival of Samhain. The Celts believed that the boundary between the worlds of living and the dead became less definite on this night before the new year and ghosts of...

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October 31st Around the World

celticeagle @celticeagle (189833) • Boise, Idaho 27 Oct 18

In Sweden and Finland October 31 is the earliest day of which All Saints Day can fall and it is celebrated between this day and Novemember 6. In the United States, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom it is known as Halloween....

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Trick or Treater got bit of a surprising treat!

Happy Homestead @destry (2567) • Kirkwall, Scotland 1 Nov 15

Last night we had our shopping delivered, and it was also Samhain (Halloween for those not up on their Celtic mythology). Anyway, we were in the midsts of unpacking all of our food - the food we paid for and the freebies. We had...

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Samhain, The Real Halloween

Amanda Tucker @Kazemononoke (248) • United States 31 Oct 15

Yes, there is indeed a pagan background to this holiday. It isn't just a night that people play tricks for fun and children get to dress up and be their hero for a day. All Hallows Eve marks the thinning of the boundaries...

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Halloween

HicMuhamed @HicMuhamed (14) 17 Sep 11

1 November... the day when people celebrate halloween (day of dead). do you dress in scary masks and go around shooting people houses with eggs? or you prefer going form house to house collecting candies, or maybe you like scaring...

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Halloween is right around the corner... are you ready?

catriana13 @catriana13 (245) • United States 14 Sep 11

For some its a fun night to dress up crazy and give or get candy, party the night away, or scare their friends and family with stories or silly tricks. For others, its also a religious holiday. Whatever the reasons you celebrate...

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Wishing everyone a Blessed Samhain!

imphavok @imphavok (320) • Canada 31 Oct 10

I just wanted to wish all my fellow Pagans, Witches and Wiccans a very Blessed Samhain and a Happy New Year! May the next turning of the wheel bring you all great happiness ad good fortune! Brightest Blessings!

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Samhain

imphavok @imphavok (320) • Canada 14 Oct 10

Greetings! I'm new here on Mylot and wanted to say hi to all my fellow Wiccans/Pagans on here! I look forward to many wonderful discussions with you all! I was wondering what everyone had planned for Samhain this...

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What are you doing for Samhain?

Monkeyrose @Monkeyrose (2840) • Canada 9 Oct 10

Are you doing anything special? I'm going to a ritual with my coven. Its exciting because I've been traveling and haven't seen them for 3 months!

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Do you celebrate Samhain or Halloween?

scammerwear @scammerwear (1433) • Singapore 31 Oct 08

To be very frank, I'm a very lazy neo-pagan. I dun often celebrate sabbats and only pay attention to Imbolc due to my believes. Living in Southeast Asia, Halloween is not celebrated here, well, at less only the merchants...

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With Samhain/Halloween Approaching...

Darkwing @Darkwing (21583) 28 Oct 08

... I'd like to share another poem with you about the festival and the thinning of the veil. I tried to write it with the past in mind as well as the present and combine the two. I hope you like it... my last for a while, I...

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What foods do you fix for Samhain?

highflyingxangel @highflyingxangel (9225) • United States 5 Oct 08

Since Samhain and Halloween are almost upon us, I'm trying to figure out something easy but delicious to fix for the festivities. I won't be doing anything major and will probably only be cooking for two on that evening. So...

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Do you celebrate any festival in the month of October?

narayan sahoo @narayan2006 (2954) • India 30 Sep 08

In India,we celebrate the festival of " Navaratri " for nine days with prayer and devotion in the beginning of autumn and spring. " Navaratri " is celebrated as the victory of good over the evil,victory of absolute truth or...

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My favorite holiday is here... Samhain!

Leca @lecanis (16647) • Murfreesboro, Tennessee 31 Oct 07

I'm so excited today. All day I've been smelling scents that remind me of my dead loved ones around me. Already I am thinking about dinner tonight, where we will invite them to share our table. We have a new guest to invite this...

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Well I looked everywhere but didn't find this question..soo..

xParanoiax @xParanoiax (6987) • United States 24 Oct 07

What're you going to dress up for, on halloween? If you celebrate the holiday, that is. What're your family members going to be? This year I'm a cat-person. I'm just gonna draw whiskers and paint around my eyes and otherwise...

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Now Is The Time To Harvest Your Pumpkins...

Darkwing @Darkwing (21583) 2 Oct 07

Yes, Samhain/Halloween is approaching, October is the month of the last harvest of the year, and time to harvest your pumpkins. If you haven't ventured in the growth of these versatile orange orbs, then you'll find them in...

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