SAMHAIN– THE CELTIC NEW YEAR
Pre-winter Autumn is the season when the world's energies are disappearing when the collection is accumulated and winter is around the corner. For the Celts, each new day began in haziness at nightfall and comparatively, their new year starts in the time of most noteworthy dimness before the colder time of year solstice. As far as they might be concerned, Samhain was the primary day of winter. It was viewed as a period for divination and for dreaming when the cover between the universes was, as at Beltane, at its most slender. It was likewise a period for the phantoms of the family to get back to home. This might have been set apart by an Idiotic Dinner where the feast was served in complete quiet with a spot laid at the top of the table for the progenitors. Everybody present needed to try not to gaze straight toward the unfilled seat as though they saw the dead it would bring misfortune. Toward the finish of the dinner, the food was set outside for the pookas. Witches would trav...