First Day of Halloween
Oct. 1st, 2007 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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eldritchhobbit's first post of spooky Halloween goodness. She has way more links than I do. Go see!
And here is my Day 1: Halloween Historical Fact!
Disclaimer: My facts are only as good as my source materials, and since most Halloween sites have copied one or two others, I do not claim complete accuracy. Since, dude, not many of those sites are very accurate at all.
Taken directly from Wikipedia:
Popular literature over the last century has given birth to the near universal assumption that Samhain/Hallowe'en was the "Celtic New Year". However, recent research by historians has begun to scrutinize the assertion. Historian Ronald Hutton, in his study of the folk calendar of the British Isles writes that there are no references which attest to this usage earlier than the 18th century, neither in church nor civic records.
A review of Hutton's book in which he explores this most interesting speculation is here
eldritchhobbit's first post of spooky Halloween goodness. She has way more links than I do. Go see!And here is my Day 1: Halloween Historical Fact!
Disclaimer: My facts are only as good as my source materials, and since most Halloween sites have copied one or two others, I do not claim complete accuracy. Since, dude, not many of those sites are very accurate at all.
Taken directly from Wikipedia:
Popular literature over the last century has given birth to the near universal assumption that Samhain/Hallowe'en was the "Celtic New Year". However, recent research by historians has begun to scrutinize the assertion. Historian Ronald Hutton, in his study of the folk calendar of the British Isles writes that there are no references which attest to this usage earlier than the 18th century, neither in church nor civic records.
A review of Hutton's book in which he explores this most interesting speculation is here
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