As for ancient bonfires, the Irish and Britons built them to celebrate Beltaine, but not Samhain—at least, not according to the medieval tales. In 19th-century Ireland, All Hallows Eve was a time for ...
This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain – pronounced SAW-en. But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature, ...
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