Opinion: The ancient Irish get way too much credit for Halloween - Peer2Peer

Opinion: The ancient Irish get way too much credit for Halloween

Oct 29, 2024

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, I can tell you: Samhain is Irish. Halloween isn't.

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-opinion-ancient-irish-credit-halloween.html

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