SAMHAIN AND ALL SAINT'S FESTIVAL

The Samhain and All Saint's festival are not far apart as it is assumed by the majority of people.

Samhain is the end of the light half and the beginning of the dark half of the year. The Celtic people celebrated it as the New Year.

It is the time were the line between the mortal world and spirit world is the thinnest. Therefore it is the best time to cross the line one way or the other.

Samhain is two words samh "summer" and fuin "end".

In the old days the tradition was to leave food for the spirits or bury apples to nourish the souls.

Pope Gregory changed that in 835 and the church bind the two together and called it All Saints' day.

This was the time when cattle were slaughtered and preserved for the winter, fruit and vegetables gathered and preserved. Plants and trees died down and therefore Samhain became the festival to celebrate death.

ON "ALL SAINTS FESTIVAL" 
PEOPLE VISIT THE GRAVES 
PUT FLOWERS AND CANDLES

Despite Christian Churches saw it as a pagan holiday, the feast continued every year and people are unaware of the connection.

Whichever you celebrate - Samhain or All Saints Day - it is a time to remember the death and thank them for what they have done for us and sacrificed for us.

SUMMARY: It is amazing and astonishing to find out how closed the Pagan religion and Christian religion really is. Unless you look way back into the so-called dark ages and learn about it, this fact will not be noticed. In order to introduce Christianity to people in those days it was a common practice to incorporate pagan festivals into the Christian religion. Over the century the pagan festivals were almost forgotten and only in the last few decades people rediscovered the paganism. It was then brought into focus that many Christian festivals originated at pagan times.