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[Imadickens]

I have never heard of this particular day! Thank you for bringing it up! I'll enjoy researching it!

[Noel7]

Have fun! @Imadickens

I hope you don't read anything about devil worship, it wasn't that at all.  In fact, the devil is a Christian construct, not Pagan.

[Moonchilde]

@Noel7, when you said it was "unfortunate" that in many peoples' minds a Celt is automatically thought of as Irish, I was going to say that *Halloween* is certainly considered Irish Celtic because of the huge waves of Irish and Scots-Irish immigrants to the US in the 19th and 20th C, and rightly so in that frame. It was the many Irish traditions that caught on in the US simply because of the huge numbers of Irish immigrants in comparison to other Celtic areas.

My Celtic roots (as opposed to my English ones) are mostly Irish and Scots-Irish, but also include Cornish and Welsh - and for all I know, perhaps even Galician/Iberian as 1% of my DNA has been identified as Iberian. My last DNA test has just come out. 91% UK ancestry going back 1000 years.

[Noel7]

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@Moonchilde wrote:

@Noel7, when you said it was "unfortunate" that in many peoples' minds a Celt is automatically thought of as Irish, I was going to say that *Halloween* is certainly considered Irish Celtic because of the huge waves of Irish and Scots-Irish immigrants to the US in the 19th and 20th C, and rightly so in that frame. It was the many Irish traditions that caught on in the US simply because of the huge numbers of Irish immigrants in comparison to other Celtic areas.

My Celtic roots (as opposed to my English ones) are mostly Irish and Scots-Irish, but also include Cornish and Welsh - and for all I know, perhaps even Galician/Iberian as 1% of my DNA has been identified as Iberian. My last DNA test has just come out. 91% UK ancestry going back 1000 years.

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@Moonchilde

The Welsh came at the same time, there were just a lot more Irish than Welsh or Cornish.  But I was referring to many things, not Halloween specifically.  I see art all the time labeled "Celtic" when it is specifically Welsh.  And other things.

[wildlifewitch]

Exactly.Pagans don't even beleive in Satan.

[RainCityWoman]

I believe the Celts and their Druid priests celebrated the change of seasons with Samhain and Beltane. Samhain dealt with harvest and the death of vegetation. Beltane celebrated fertility and regrowth. Samhain morphed into All Hallowed Saint's Day celebrating the spirits of the dead. The may be two other seasonal days, but I don't remember them I'll have to look them up. Halloween, its actual name came from Hallowed Evening or E'en.