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How to use Samhain in a sentence

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In traditional Ireland, Samhain was the harvest festival marking the end of one year and beginning of the next.
In Samhain, banks of grass-covered earth in the shape of a sleeping woman wrap around a pool encircled in a ring of birch trees.
We have travelled from the heart-breaking bleakness of the season of Samhain through the mid-Winter.
The origins of Halloween date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.
The harvest has been celebrated, Samhain has passed, and now the nights will become shorter and colder.
During the 400 years that they ruled, two Roman festivals were combined with the Celtic celebration of Samhain.
Halloween is known as Samhain to pagans and was the Celtic festival of the dead.
The custom of decorating with apples, pumpkins, cornstalks, and autumn leaves has its origin in an ancient Druid autumn festival called Samhain.
Originally the Celtic fire festival of Samhain, it celebrated the end of the Celtic year.
This day was a day to celebrate the harvest, as well as the holiday of Samhain.
It was formerly the eve of the Celtic festival of Samhain, a name which comes down to us directly from the Gaelic for the end of summer.
The ancient Celts celebrated Samhain on Nov.1 as the day the veil between the world of the living and the dead was at its thinnest.
In many parts of the British Isles these balefires are still lighted on Samhain to honor the old ways.
The tides are especially high right now, as we get closer to Samhain and the vernal equinox.
It was alleged that in the course of this unique evening, known as the Samhain, the ghosts would come out of their tombs.
There were plenty more people tonight because of the Samhain festivities.
Halloween had its origins in the festival of Samhain among the Celts of ancient Britain and Ireland.
Samhain was the original ancient name for Halloween, a harvest festival marking the end of summer and a transition to the darker days ahead.
Popular belief and practice could therefore persist in, for example, the cult of Bridget and the customs associated with festivals such as Lughnasa and Samhain.
Moreover the lyrics of Wizard's Crown might be about the pagan fest of Samhain.
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Anyway, I was driven out a Samhain day like this, because of some things that were said against me.
And any one that came to her house at Samhain time might stay till Beltaine, and have his choice then to go or to stay.
The second battle took place twenty-seven years after the first, on Samhain.
The dates of these survivals may be explained by that dislocation of the Samhain festival already pointed out.
It was on the week before Samhain that the Fomor landed upon Ireland.
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