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@jerm7369

8 ай бұрын

😊😊😊😊

@rssreader7352

8 ай бұрын

Your video editing software makes your sound a bit muffled/lower quality. Compare the sound from the Kenneth Anger livestream and the edited version and you can hear a difference... For sometime now the audio hasn't been the best quality.

@ETALAL

8 ай бұрын

🧛‍♀️Thx Angela Nice poppies in the background screen, 🃏

Some fun facts. The term 'bonfire' comes from the direct translation of the Irish name for these fires 'tine cnàmh' which translates to bone fire (bones of the animals killed during the festival were burned). Over time it morphed into bonfire. In Ireland it is still very common to light bonfires on Halloween night despite the fact it has been illegal for many years. Unfortunately it is dying out in some areas As many probably already know, the costumes people wear, were to trick the fairies and other supernatural beings into thinking you were one of them, hence saving you from harm or their trickery Jack-o-lanterns served a similar purpose but their origins are a myth about a man called Stingy Jack who tricked the Devil and was cursed to wander the earth with the light from his lantern to guide him. Since pumpkins are not native to Ireland, the original lanterns were carved out of turnips. I suggest Googling some of these turnip lanterns. Much creepier than the pumpkin ones!

@numinous2506

8 ай бұрын

I'm growing my first turnips this year! I'm going to carve one.

@pathfinderwellcare

8 ай бұрын

Very cool. Thank you for sharing!

@bluebird3281

8 ай бұрын

Why are bon fires illegal? Are they too big or people don't practice fire safety?

@justkiddin84

8 ай бұрын

@@bluebird3281good question!

@grwilson3770

8 ай бұрын

Yes, I remember making turnip lanterns for Hallowe'en when I was a kid in the 70s (I am from Scotland). The turnips were awkward to carve and were always scary. The smell of turnip still make me think of Hallowe'en. We also had treacle scones hanging from string to be eaten without hands (very sticky and messy) and dunking for apples.

Happy Samhain y'all !! WE MADE IT !!

@onealjones9039

8 ай бұрын

Woot woot!

@JulianS-xu6ff

8 ай бұрын

Better Samhain than Mythmas aka Chris myth.

@chuck0231

8 ай бұрын

Isn't Samhain when the sun reaches 15 degrees of scorpio (Nov 6)

@taleighshacinto33

8 ай бұрын

​@chuck0231 very confusing I know 😅

@ace-zq8pm

8 ай бұрын

@@chuck0231 I don't know. I just prefer the witchy name

Happy Samhein ,Dr Angela Puca and to all of us Pagans and Neopagans. Dr Puca always enlightens us.

@jeanettewaverly2590

8 ай бұрын

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Like any old tradition, it is our duty as modern practitioners to keep it alive to it's roots yet adapt it respectfully to the modern challenges of our new world. Thank you Dr. Angela for furthering the studies into the practices of our ancestors :) Happy Samhain

🧙🏻‍♀ We have an interesting autumn tradition called Dziady. In my part of family it died out, but our great aunts and their part of the family still follow it. At one night around start of November (I think it's normatively Friday before the 8th of November for Orthodox and 2th of November for Catholics, but the date varied depending on location) people would place an empty plate of food on the table, for the visiting spirits of dead relatives. When I started university, I lived with my great aunt Sonia, because I couldn't get student lodging, and she actually observed that: she did put another plate when calling us to the table. There were no other differences from a normal day, just one more plate at the table. (I don't remember what date she observed, though.) I think it's similar because it's also about an autumn night when borders between our world and the other world became thinner, so deceased people can visit their families.

@justkiddin84

8 ай бұрын

Went to look it up-interesting tradition-bits of various fall/winter holidays as we know them now. Thanks! I’m watching Nov 1, so I think I may start a new home tradition of the extra plate!

@AW-uv3cb

8 ай бұрын

Are you from Ukraine, Belarus or somewhere in the area? We used to have Dziady in Poland too (in fact, that's the title of one of the most important theatrical plays in our history). For non-Slavic people here, Dziady literally means Forefathers :-) . I think it's been completely substituted by the All Saints' Day, but in the play (from the 19th century) a ceremony is described where villagers gather at night in a chapel, set out food and drink and call out to wandering souls to tell them if they need anything. The tradition with the spare plate is something we do for Christmas Eve and it has many explanations (that it's for the Baby Jesus, or for a stranger that might stray into your house, or for the ancestors).

@dzmitry_k

8 ай бұрын

​@@AW-uv3cb I'm half-Ukrainian half-Belarusian. But Dziady is observed on the Belarusian part of my family, not on the Ukrainian.

@fenikslied

8 ай бұрын

That corresponds to the solar cross quarter if it was around the 7th/8th of november. That's legit Celtic stuff right there. THere's burial sites where the sun aligns perfectly on that day. That was the original Samhain. Those witches pretending to be edgy on a full more or October 31st don't know what they're doing. Also supposedly the thinning of the veil could be used for good or ill and even Christians would practice divination in those times (yes, Christians practiced magic at some point. So did jews. Casting lots is a form of divination. Witchcraft is the use of a false god in Judeo-Christian lore and that's all but forgotten.)

🧙‍♂️ I particularly appreciate the accurate captioning, I have horrendous ADHD and subtitles help me follow along SO much, especially when there is so much great information! Great video!

November is known as Mis Du (Black Month) in Cornish and Breton. Linguistic evidence suggests that the Brythons adopted the Roman calendar after occupation. Prior to that they may have used some form of luni-solar reckoning which would have made Samhain a movable feast. Good overview, thanks! 🧙

Happy Halloween Angela. You’re easily my favorite sorceress! ❤

Gotta love how informative and fun these videos are 🧙‍♀️

Truly love all that you've explained and pin-pointed regarding Samhain's nuanced origin that nowadays makes it a day worthy to feist in all the ways possible. Happy Halloween Angela🧙🏻‍♂️🎃🔥

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I found your channel by accident and was fascinated by it. thanks for this video. I wish more people knew about you and supported you. Happy Samhain 🧙🏻‍♀️🌙

The curated transcript is now available to all symposiasts at www.innersymposium.study/?p=4983 Also, there is a quiz on the video here www.innersymposium.study/?page_id=4830. 🧙‍♀🪄🧙

Fascinating and thorough, as usual.

Thank you SO much for this video, and others! New subscriber here! Your videos fascinate me! You are simply lovely to listen to! Happy Samhain to all! ❤

🧙 thank you for thoughtfully putting together this information for us! So interesting and it’s always good to learn the roots of these holidays.

15:28 🧙‍♀My favorite episode of Tales from the Darkside called "The Cutty Black Sow" has a plot point around this specific tradition.

@Wolfparadox

8 ай бұрын

I was about to post about that

🧙🏻‍♀️Thank you so much! So glad I found your channel-evidence & scholarly based or cited information is so hard to come by on these platforms. I sincerely appreciate the time & effort you put in, & for sharing it for free! Happy Halloween / Samhain! 🎃🧡🖤

@JosephineWitch

8 ай бұрын

She's still wrong but yanno 🤷 when it comes to Irish traditions

🧙🏻‍♂️ My favorite part is always the loud 80s rock at the end.

Thank you for the fantastic work you share! 🧙‍♀️💗

Grazie mille per i tuoi contenuti e per il bellissimo modo in cui hai presentato.

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

grazie a te per il tuo supporto al mio lavoro!

Have a Blessed Samhain! 🧙‍♀️

Thank you for the video very enlightening.

Thank you, Dr. Angela!

Informative. 🧙‍♀

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

🧙🏻💜 Loved this! Thank you very much!

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Great wrap up as usual. 🧙

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

Thank you 🤗

😃 Hi, Dr. Puca! Happy to see you again! I love your newsletter! 😃 😃 This video is super interesting, thanks to you I learn more about this fascinating topic! 😃 And about your nickname as well. 😁 😃 Blessed and happy Samhain to you, Dr. Puca! See you next time! 😃

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! You too!

Madd Tatted Shaman here!! Samhain 2023 is upon us!!! Time for ritual, meditation, manifestation!!!

🧛‍♂️ Happy Samhain!

🧙‍♀️ Thank you for your work!

Goblin Night!! Love it!!🧙‍♂

Angela, you are great❤!

🧙‍♀️ Fabulous, great info!

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great video 🧙🏼🧙‍♀️

Your point of multiple peoples with their celebrations is right on. Celtic Samhain is true but only one of many paths. Great Video.

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾A Fun & Fantastic set of Information!..👍🏾

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for that!

Super interesting stuff! Thank you! 🧙

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I would highly recommend the poem Samhain by Timothy Grimm found in the book Witches, Wolves, Haints, & Whores. 🧙

Great video! I would add, however, that the Christian celebration of the dead, All Saints, Day that became associated with Samhain was likely acknowledging a theme that already existed in Samhain. Otherwise, there would have been no need to move it in the 9th century, from its previous date in the spring which covered the Roman ancestor celebration called Lemuria.

@watermelonlalala

8 ай бұрын

I think it all goes back to Inanna rising out of the underworld with "zombies" and going around to visit cities in Sumer. Hence, the idea that scary things are happening.

@macnacailli

8 ай бұрын

@@watermelonlalala I'd look for Proto-Indo-European roots first, but ya never know.

@1cruzbat1

8 ай бұрын

Except Ireland didn't move All Saint's day in the 9th century. That happened on the continent and England.

@macnacailli

8 ай бұрын

@@1cruzbat1 Samhain wasn’t unique to Ireland, we have folkloric evidence across the Celtic and post-Celtic world under various names. The oldest, possibly, being the Coligny calendar in 1c BCE in Gaul.

Youre absolutely right. It was a harvest festival.

🧙‍♂🧙‍♀ Thanks for the great info.

in UK now we have bonfires on the 5th of November to celebrate the failure of Guy Fawlkes' attempt to burn down the houses of parliament.. bit of a coincidence,, like easter and xmas

🧙ty for your (as always) wonderful content.

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

👻📥📤 Dr Puca, I can't find a witch to post, but I replaced it with a ghost to honor the times of the thin veil. The IN and OUT boxes to represent the tribal leaders who met at Samhain for administrative purposes. 😂 Thank you for educating us on the real meaning and purposes of this time.

Great video as always! Happy Halloween! 🧙🏽‍♀️

In german speaking circles it´s sometimes called Frau Holle or Holle-Fest. And celebrated on the scorpion back moon.

👻🧙‍♂️🎃 Happy Spooky Season❣️

Don't know how do witch emote. Enjoyed video and learned. Thank you.

Thanks!

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

🧙‍♀ thank you very much - very informative!!!

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Angela, when I first saw your name and didn't know better, I wondered if it was a pseudonym alluding to the Púca, so I got a wee chuckle when you mentioned that😆. Cheers, and Samhain shona daoibh!

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

I love it!

Hope everyone had a good Samhain🎃🔥 Watching on the Day of the Dead. Thank you for the background! 🧙🏻‍♀️♥️✌️

🧙‍♂ :) Excellent lecture. And well done attempting the Irish and Welsh pronunciations!

@drangelapuca

7 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

Amazing video! I learned so much! ♒🍄🕸(can't find it, so no witch emoji for me😅😅😅)

Blessed Samhain 🎃🧙‍♀️

I just came across your page and this was the first video I have seen. I like it a lot and signed up for your newsletter. Thank you for this info

🍕🍕🍕🍕 (no witch imojies to select from)...figured a pizza wedge would suffice 🤘😋

@Bildgesmythe

8 ай бұрын

Even better 😂

here in the real pagan north it was the other new year or old summer vs. new winter (timed by leaves falling and waters freezing). what´s interesting is that here too it lasted seven days (and nights, during the time when the rivers froze) where they burned fires for the river spirits (basically it was the end of the summer fishing season). also what´s known is that they asked for an easy winter from the river totems (whom were the main gods, ancestors originally). in some records they also ate seven times or shouted seven times (a form of praying here). it was also done in the home shrines where they changed the birch twigs collected in the spring for spruce twigs for the coming winter (which tells of the two way split of the year). just some small details.. to summarize in many places here (uralic areas) it was one of the two yearly main sacrifice dates (the other one being in the spring when the ice melted from the rivers, river based cultures they were / still are). also i want to say that in the real pagan discourse it´s always the agricultural customs vs. the older hunter-gatherer customs (christianity does not exist in that paradigm). ps. evidence is NOT lacking! (i have over 1000 notes on autumn alone and i haven´t read shit) :)

@joutavainen2920

8 ай бұрын

also if you don´t have a fire just put on two stoves! it´s nice to celebrate there by the warmth, skin on skin (the real kitchen witchery). it´s seven days and seven NIGHTS!

🦇🕷🕸 Couldn't find a witch but if you combine these ingredients with the blood of a hanged man on all hallows, maybe a witch will appear.

Was just looking for something like this recently!! Perfect timing; thank you!

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

So its not what we think?? SMHain! 😅 Thank You then to the rigor and work by Dr Angela Puca for clarifying the origin of Samhain! 🎃 👻 🌌 😈

thx

You left out the tradition of keeping Jack O Lantern lit till midnight or Sam will get you. 😂😂😂 Seriously great video. 🧙‍♀️

Happy Halloween!! 🤘😎🤘

The emphasis on the Celtic provenance is interesting.

Woot! 🧙‍♀🔮

Your ancestors must have had a fascinating story about your surname ❤

My favorite nominee for Countess Dracula discussing the history behind Samhein? Stop my beating heart!

👻Thank you, a very interesting video and I learned a few new things too. hope you had a Happy Hallowe'en. (Sorry, I couldn't find the witch emoji - she must be off somewhere)

🧙‍♀️Blessed Samhain!

Thank you. I found this interesting and enlightening. 🧙‍♀️

I've always wondered where the "Celtic New Year" thing came from. So it was Rhys! (By the way it's pronounced "rheess" not "rice".)

Which witch is which? 🧙‍♀️

The term "Celtic Fire Festival" refers to specific things. Samhain is one of those festivals. That doesn't mean that's the only way it was celebrated, but to say it's not a Celtic Fire Festival is false. Also, Nov.1st is the Celtic New Year. It is a festival of the new year. That wasn't the main aspect of what Samhain was about, but to say it is not a new year festival is also false. It happens on the Celtic New Year, that is when Samhain is observed. Every festival considered to be Celtic are subject to multiple regional differences and such. When people today attempt to explain them, it doesn't mean that is all they are. What it means is that these are commonalities of the festival. These are generalized traditions. The ideas presented about these festivals hold up under scrutiny. The Celts were not a monolith, so there will always be alternate views and things to discover. You don't have to be contrarian to explore and showcase other unique aspects of cultures. I am a Druid that works with an evidence based reconstructionist group. The things that you say Samhain is not are aspects that I do observe. There's more to it than that, but it is incorrect to say these things are false. Also, when you talk about how it was practiced in Ireland and such as if what you share is the real observances is dishonest. In Ireland itself the practices changed quite a bit over time. It depends on when you're looking at. You shouldn't make things sensational at the expense of truth.

I am curious, was old Pagan practices stomped out pretty much entirely and the new Paganism is trying to pick up the threads of the old ways? Or, did practice just go underground all these years and the practices are the same as they always were. I find religious studies very interesting. I think more people should study this. It's quite obvious we are the same.

I never rely on the capricious algorithm... I sacrifice goats to appease it, but i never rely on it

Thank you for this! I'm American, and I've always wondered about the origins of Samhain (as well as how to pronounce it because I've been saying it wrong since forever now). I don't practice European based spiritual systems, but I've always wondered what the hype is around Halloween since Christians always demonized it. Thankfully I came across your channel and you now have a new subscriber. 😁🧙🏿‍♂️🧛🏿🧟‍♂️

@susanhelwig1468

8 ай бұрын

Then I would not follow this person because she is wrong. If you're interested in Irish traditions, look up Lora O'Brien or the Irish Pagan School.

@SMiki55

8 ай бұрын

​@@susanhelwig1468in which details is Angela wrong? I mean the TikTok witch aesthetics can be off-putting, but she's a legitimate academic, the decorum is irrelevant.

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Ancient Celts marked Samhain as the most significant of the four quarterly fire festivals, taking place at the midpoint between the fall equinox and the winter solstice. During this time of year, hearth fires in family homes were left to burn out while the harvest was gathered. After the harvest work was complete, celebrants joined with Druid priests to light a community fire using a wheel that would cause friction and spark flames. The wheel was considered a representation of the sun and used along with prayers. Cattle were sacrificed, and participants took a flame from the communal bonfire back to their home to relight the hearth. 🔥🎃🖤

🧙‍♀️I really enjoyed this video!

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

I'm so glad!

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Halloween and November 1st The Day of the Dead is in remembrance of the great flood. When else in history has so many people perished at one time in one event? It is now something far different. Blessings to you

Loved it and i learnt so much 🎃🧙‍♀🧹

So something I don't entirely get here, it sounds like from watching this it's not so much that modern Halloween is rooted in Samhain, but that lingering Samhain traditions potentially influenced and added to the celebrations and activities held around All Saint's/All Souls day? It sounds like the association with the dead mostly comes from the christian side of things and Samhain inherited that vibe?

@irkendragon

8 ай бұрын

Also in this video you say at one point that there's no evidence Samhain marked the Celtic New Year, but then again later you say it did. So which is it?

🎃 I've no witch/wizard emoji 😔

I read somewhere that way before a celebration of dead relatives and spirits, the tradition of wearing masks came from an ancient Germanic tradition of a Harvest festival/ festival of the Hunt (?), where neighboring villages would get together and feast on some of the harvest, and then the younger women and men would run around in a field (cornfield? wheat field?) wearing masks, which was like a reenactment of a "wild hunt" thought to be linked to ghosts/faeries/supernatural beings...and if one of the hunters (men) caught one of the prey (women) then they would copulate. I'm guessing the masks were to hide identities (not sure why?). This practice was a way to ensure mixed genetics across villages to avoid inbreeding or weak gene pools. This also aligns with human births around late summer/early autumn, which historically yields healthier babies with higher birth weights and lower percentage of premature births. Has anyone else read about this? I'm wondering if this is Samhain, pre-Samhain, or was this something else?

Witch emojii. Many thanks.

🧙‍♀️🧙‍♂️ Great research!

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Salvatoreguglielmo_

8 ай бұрын

@@drangelapucadi niente!

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I like the video but the thumbs up is at 369 and I don't want to mess it up 😆

@drangelapuca

8 ай бұрын

you can!

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