The Origin of Halloween
Originally printed in the
Ponchatoula Times
If Halloween is your favorite holiday, thank the ancient Celts who called it Samhain.
Samhain is that time when the world of the living is closest to the world of the dead.
According to one Internet citation, “Ancient Celts marked Samhain as the most significant of the four quarterly fire festivals, taking place at the midpoint between the Fall Equinox and t…