Samhain

Attested in early Irish literature as a seasonal boundary; the eight-festival 'Wheel of the Year' that now frames it alongside seven other named sabbats is under seventy years old, assembled by Gerald Gardner and Ross Nichols in the late 1950s.

Sanas Cormaic and Tochmarc Emire, on the Irish quarter-day; the modern Wheel of the Year, from Wiccan and Druidic sources of the late 1950s

An Irish quarter-day marking the point when the boundary between this world and the otherworld was held to open.

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