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Origins of Halloween

August 27, 2008
By Richmond Park Church

On the evening of the 31st October, between the Autumnal Equinox and the Winter Solstice, the Celts in Britain held a festival called "Samhain" ("Summer's end"). It was the first day of the Celtic New Year and the beginning of winter, a time when, the Druids claimed, the natural and the supernatural worlds merged,...
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