It is a time to welcome the darkness of winter and shadow. It is an ancestor holiday in North America. Samhain is also known as Halloween, or Hallowmas. Falling between Fall Equinox and Winter Solstice.
Samhain is a cross quarter day, marking the mid point of Autumn. Samhain, also known as the Witches New Year, is always held on October 31st. Modern pagans, Wiccans, and witches still celebrate Samhain as a high Holy Day – the “Witches New Year” –
Hutton states, “For the Celts, Samhain was both an end-of-summer feast and a time of communion with the realms of the spirit”. Halloween, or All Hallows, arose from the Celtic pagan holy day of Samhain (SOW-en), a time when the last harvest was in and the days were growing noticeably shorter. Halloween has been a time of spooky ghosts, witches, and monsters, but not all ghosts have to be scary. These ghosts can walk, talk, and occasionally acknowledge the living” (Historic Tours of America), which can sometimes appear to people before those people even know the apparition is of someone dead. Then there is “The Interactive Personality Ghosts are the most common in hauntings and usually appear in a form similar to when they were alive. Misty or translucent apparitions can also appear, usually with a cold chill, as it is believed that they use our body heat to manifest. Especially poltergeists, which seem not only intrusive, but destructive. But is there a scientific foundation for the phenomena of ghosts or hauntings? Let’s explore. There are literally millions of ghost stories, some claim to be real, others are clearly just fun.
Wherever you are in that mix, have you ever felt … something? Like a sudden chill? A movement, just out of sight of your peripheral vision? Things seem to move on their own in your house? Unexplained noises or voices? Or that feeling like someone unseen was watching you? Or maybe just an eerie feeling about a place? Are ghosts real? And still others don’t believe in ghosts at all. Some believe that ghostly activity is caused by demonic forces. Some believe that ghosts, such as poltergeists are merely psychic phenomena manifesting. Others believe that something ties the spirit to the place or object or people it haunts. Some believe that they are spirits who do not yet know they are dead. The restless dead – some people believe that ghosts are spirits of those who died with unfinished business.
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