In October, daylight wanes, fields empty and much of the Northern Hemisphere turns itself towards full blown memento mori.

All of this death is not without ceremony, found most notably in Halloween, a holiday whose origins trace back to the Iron Age and a feast of fire.

Samhain or Samhuinn, pronounced sow-wen, is the pagan precursor to Halloween, a festival honoring the end of the harvest, the onset of winter and the beginning of the “dark half” of the Celtic calendar year.

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