10 Ways to Honor Samhain (aka Halloween)

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Halloween, or All Hallow’s Eve, has more meaning than simply a slapstick holiday, cloaked in candy and costumes. The current secular holiday takes its roots from the Christian celebration of All Saints Day on November 1 for honoring holy people of the past: hallow from Old English meaning “holy”, and -een meaning “evening.” However, even before All Hallow’s Eve was the ancient European festival of the dead called…