samhain , samhain-based festivals held neopagans. there many kinds of neopaganism, samhain celebrations can different despite shared name. try emulate historic festival as possible. other neopagans base celebrations on sundry unrelated sources, gaelic culture being 1 of sources. folklorist jenny butler describes how irish pagans pick elements of historic samhain celebrations , meld them references celtic past, making new festival of samhain inimitably part of neo-pagan culture.
neopagans celebrate samhain on 31 october – 1 november in northern hemisphere , 30 april – 1 may in southern hemisphere, beginning , ending @ sundown. neopagans celebrate @ astronomical midpoint between autumn equinox , winter solstice (or full moon nearest point). in northern hemisphere, midpoint when ecliptic longitude of sun reaches 225 degrees. in 2015, on 7 november, @ 17:44 gmt.
celtic reconstructionism
like other reconstructionist traditions, celtic reconstructionist pagans emphasise historical accuracy. base celebrations , rituals on traditional lore research beliefs of polytheistic celts.
celtic reconstructionist pagans (or crs) celebrate samhain on date of first frost, or when last of harvest in , ground dry enough have bonfire. follow old tradition of building 2 bonfires, celebrants , livestock walk or dance between ritual of purification. crs, time when dead honoured. though crs make offerings @ times of year, samhain time when more elaborate offerings made specific ancestors. may involve making small shrine. there meal, place dead set @ table , invited join. traditional tales may told , traditional songs, poems , dances performed. western-facing door or window may opened , candle left burning on windowsill guide dead home. divination coming year done, whether in solemnity or games children. more mystically inclined may see time communing deities, seen being particularly linked festival.
wicca
wiccans celebrate variation of samhain 1 of yearly sabbats of wheel of year. deemed wiccans important of 4 greater sabbats . samhain seen wiccans time celebrate lives of have died, , involves paying respect ancestors, family members, elders of faith, friends, pets , other loved ones have died. in rituals spirits of dead invited attend festivities. seen festival of darkness, balanced @ opposite point of wheel spring festival of beltane, wiccans celebrate festival of light , fertility.
wiccans believe @ samhain veil between world , afterlife @ thinnest point of whole year, making easier communicate have left world.
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