I went to a Celtic Pagan Ceremony in Ireland (Gaelic Samhain Festival)

On Samhain night, I joined members from each of the provinces of Ireland to recreate the traditional celtic pagan ceremony that gives it origins to Halloween. Organised by the Púca Festival and Fáilte Ireland, we had the honour of participating in a very unique experience.
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Who are you?
My name is Harker Ryan and I am a Irish KZbinr and a member of the now defunct Irish KZbin channel "Facts Channel" cast. When I'm not watching odd TV shows or taste testing weird foods I'm usually out adventuring with my mates.

[@douglas_fir]

I truly hope that all of Europe and eventually the world will return to their true spiritual identity.

[@umokay5285]

Or at least will be happy to welcome it back.

[@shaunamcconnoran6007]

it will

[@ancienthearts1280]

We are getting there Darling... We are getting there.

[@kipthearcticfox5124]

Germanic Peganism, welcome home long time no see.

[@ggeo1364]

what do your view on hinduism

[@followersoftheoldwayssaget2118]

When they started calling out the names of their Ancestors I just started to cry a lot.

[@lanceltheislandwitch9779]

Same

[@dianeaishamonday9125]

Same!

[@kendrajohnson4900]

I'm happy I still have a deep connection.

[@kendrajohnson4900]

I started crying as well. You need that kind of unity. And, to be honest, I've lost a lot of loved ones young and tragically.

[@fatbeard8072]

I as well. For some reason I felt this overwhelming sense understanding, i wasn't sad or depressed, just I knew.

[@jamesmacoisdealbhaigh9904]

This is beautiful.. Let us indigenous Irish never forget our ancestors and our true religion.. Paganism. I count myself extremely lucky to have been born and lived all my life near Tara, County Meath as my ancestors before me..

[@jamesmacoisdealbhaigh9904]

@bill Bloggs You think wrong I'm afraid 😊

[@russworks5343]

You mean where u burn humans alive as sacrifice against their wishes to get ur demon god happy ,clap clap fool

[@CorvidDarkness5852]

@@russworks5343 Show me proof that pagans actually do this you probably can't because you're probably just another Christian assuming that you know everything about other people's religions...😒

[@lukericker8325]

@Ptolemy 1 It is evil. That’s a fact. All paganism is.

[@jayn9559]

Happy yule! Which will be my first but certainly not the last for more too come. Wisdom as the All Father sacrifice for knowledge... Now I leave you this. What will you do for knowledge all seeking?

[@liliannakifflin6343]

Halloween is a commercial mask, but the heart of Samhain still beats hard and Strong! 🎃🕷🕸🦇💜🌖🌑🌔

[@douglasmcgregor5511]

This is exactly the ritual I need to let go of all the grief. Beautiful.

[@randyhodges8782]

Shout out to Ireland for 1 of the best holidays ever!

[@nickibahahahah3605]

Samhain*

[@japanfanatic1415]

Halloween is a Christian bastardization of Samhain.

[@crynne66]

And helping make the white house

[@solarisxyz3405]

Actually many European pagans have that holiday. They have just not preserved that tradition. In slavic countries they celebrated the day of Veles and it had almost the same meaning and was celebrated at the same day.

[@TeachUBusiness]

Harker! This is your calling---I love your documentary style videos. Superb.

[@davidweitzenkamp4856]

I'm embarrassed to admit that I thought this was a video game trailer until ... umm ... 3 and a half minutes in. Very otherworldly!

[@MortaLRhymE]

Roman church wants to know your location.

[@normcalkins349]

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@totallyanonymousbish9599]

Omg😂😂😂

[@Mongruadh93]

This was a huge a very public event attended by thousands of people and media it was no big secret.

[@ughgross1258]

sjdsajdjsd oh s h i t thats good

[@jardodraconic9766]

Leave me people alone lol

[@robloxmaniacdanceandshake7871]

This is why people love this channel...... this is actually important and interesting content.... Good for her to open this part up....

[@Maggiesgardens]

As an Irish pagan I enjoyed this lovely video. Thank you. Well done, xxx

[@shaunigothictv1003]

The roman catholics would have burned you at the stake for saying that 500 years ago.

[@Maggiesgardens]

@@shaunigothictv1003 Thats fine, I've been thru worse from them.

[@shaunigothictv1003]

@@Maggiesgardens Ok luv. But allow me to educate you. Im a Londoner born and bred. My dad was Indian and my mum was Ethiopan. Paki is a British term made up by British and Irish Catholics in the 1950's. The British and Irish Catholics used it as a way to take the piss out of the strange accent and strange facial features of the newly arrived Pakistanis and Indians into Britain and LATER Ireland. In a similiar fashion, the British and American Protestants made up the word Nigger in the 1920's in Britiain and America - whilst British and Irish catholics made up the word Paki in the 1950's in Britain and LATER Ireland. NIGGER came from the word NEGRO in Britain and America during the 1800's and was made up by British and American Protestants as a way of degrading the facial features and strange accent of Blacks. PAKI came from the word PAKISTANI in the 1950's in Britain and LATER Ireland and was made up by the British and Irish Catholics as a way of degrading the facial features and strange accent of south Asians. But The Catholics and the Protestants were NOT cruel to people purely on the basis of skin complexion. Here is the proof........... Irish Catholics loved Blacks - but hated Indians. On the other hand, American and British Protestants hated Blacks - but loved Indians. This proves that neither the Irish Catholics OR the British /American Protestants were ever racist to people on the basis of skin colour. These certain prejudices simply arose on the basis of certain cultural clashes in the communities combined with differences in the phenotypical facial structures of the various individuals in question which made people feel uneasy. It was NOT (and never) based on skin complexion as NONE of the White Celtic peoples in Britain were ever racist to people purely on the basis of the colour of their skin.

[@Maggiesgardens]

@@shaunigothictv1003 Yes, I understand that. But as far as me being burnt at the stake, Like I said, they did worse. I am Irish, of Monaghan and I know my history well. Would not have mattered what colour I was, but as a Peaceful pagan, I still would have been killed, simply because I didn't believe in one supreme male deity, but many, Male, female and other.

[@shaunigothictv1003]

@@Maggiesgardens I get what your saying luv. Heres the thing. I believe in the divine mother feminine. You assign both MALE and FEMALE attributes to the divine creator/Gods so obviously me and you disagree sweetheart. Whoever the divine creator/s (plural) is - I do not believe that it/they are a male entity. I think of God as purely a feminine creator. Think about it luv. Who wrote the Bible and quran? Both books were written by blokes, right? So obviously those blokes were trying to understand the world around them and they put things into a male perspective. So they referred to God as HE. Thats where I disagree with them as I worship God in the feminine creator. But you say God has both gender attributes. Thats seems weird to me but each to their own luv.

[@StMyles]

So the Irish still practice the ancient ceremony of Samhain? Interesting. Thanks for sharing Harker.

[@Soundwave._]

@Anarcho Christian I can't answer for Pastel, but as a pagan myself, I will personally be lighting a candle in the window for the Aos Si and wandering spirits, making some pastry offerings, and feasting! I may video chat some friends as well (one would normally host or attend a great feast in person but what with the dreaded plague, it is best to stick indoors). Lastly, I will be tending my hearth fire servitors, and drinking a brew of mugwort tea before bed to make the most of the thin veil for some interesting dreams. There are pagans all over the world who celebrate Samhain, not just Ireland (though I myself am English, currently based in Wales).

[@FizzyDrink2098]

Yes! Not a lot of the Irish who practice it are Pagan, those are Irish who just still connect to their indigenous roots despite the religion they identify with. I’m apart of a family that has practiced it for a long time and are still Pagan.

[@jen-heartofglass7339]

This was beautiful Harker. Thanks for sharing❤ You look beautiful with the wavy hair❤

[@painunbound]

I love your voice over, really forms the whole video.

[@GrumpyOldBastard]

Well thank you for sharing Harker, May the blessing of light be on you.

[@chunksaflyin]

Great content. Thank you so much for sharing this. As always love your videos.

[@Mongruadh93]

This a a beautiful video of the night - fine Job. I was Macha the priestess in Red.

[@egirlpp4sale446]

I love everything about this, I even called out Lillian Miller for my love long since passed. Thank you for this.

[@TheCuriousCelt]

If you enjoyed that , you should head up to Uisneach for the beltaine fire festival. 🍀

[@K1rmcc]

Well that sure looks like fun, thank you for sharing it.

[@thelonelyinfj]

This fills my soul with much longing. I wish to experience this one day❤

[@tamzenkarma]

You can do your own As I do Alone with my coyote wolf dog By the 🔥 fire

[@dustinrosenau2733]

Thanks for making this, I definitely enjoyed it.

[@Fuilleverte]

I dearly miss being with a grove for Samhain. This looks like a great time.

[@yourchannel2567]

Very cool, Harker. That looked like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing it. =D

[@darkagegrrl6969]

ty Harker-i didn't get to go to any rituals this Samhain and i felt the emptiness..ty i now feel better..ur my fave!! hugs and Blessed Be!!

[@williamdixon595]

Thank you Harker, that was just lovely.

[@JR-bi9fk]

This is so fucking rad! Thank you for sharing this with us, I would've had no idea that such a beautiful event was happening otherwise. Wish I could've been there!

[@corabertelsen7107]

Same here and I have roots from Western Europe so who knows if somehow I could connect to this. This looks like such a unique beautiful holiday, tradition, and event.

[@siwrudolfsen3580]

Thank you for a most Beautiful video of Shamain 😌🍂🍁✨

[@garydodge7894]

Oooh boy... Ive got goosebumps. You gotta watch out for those Pookas

[@MasterMichelleFL]

😂💚

[@VARULV3N]

I so badly want to learn more about my Irish and Norwegian ancestors, sadly live in america, but i am 25% both irish and norwegian on my fathers side, I adore the culture of those areas and want to move to ireland so bad! Absolutely beautiful festival, thank you for recording it :)

[@alibolink0719]

I am more than 25% of irish, scottish and norse. I'm also an American. I hope we both can learn about our heritages

[@laceygail]

Me too!!

[@brockmiller574]

It's all there waiting for you. Try learning a bit of the languages of your ancestors. Learn a bit about their daily lives, like how they cooked and ate, for example.

[@fk14]

I'm from ireland and I rlly recommend looking into irish history it's so interesting and there's so much to learn! Also the country has beautiful scenery and beautiful towns if you ever visit I recommend going to kinsale in my home town of cork it's amazing!

[@JudiWhitacre]

Thank you for sharing this! So beautiful and awesome to see. Blessed be in this new year!

[@MasterMichelleFL]

💚💚💚🖤💚💚💚 I would adore attending ritual in Ireland. How intense... Blessed be. (Jen Oliver)

[@MasterMichelleFL]

I KNEW it!!

[@jollyrogerhobbies2386]

Very nice Harker! Thank you for taking us along! I was a little surprised that most of everyone was speaking and singing in English. I would have assumed the songs and speeches would have been in Gaelic. Again, thank you.

[@satanicpoet5093]

I am Irish and I live with 3 witches in the hills

[@jinxapologist]

This is beautiful, I wish I could experience it myself. Thanks so much for sharing!

[@shonamckenzie7124]

I went to a Gaelic one in Scotland, it was amazing. I did fall out of a porta loo door and sprain my ankle though. Grand time though xx

[@MuayThai_Don]

Both are gaelic

[@trekboy02]

That was awesome. I have never seen anything like it. Thank you for sharing.

[@ShannonlKeenan]

harker this was so cool!!! it was like a movie!!! 😍😍😍

[@MasterMichelleFL]

Hi Shannon! 💚(It is really cool!)

[@ShannonlKeenan]

@@MasterMichelleFL hey gal!

[@SuperVikhyath]

Wow I thought only we indians kept the tradition alive, great to see this in europe too ❤

[@SuperVikhyath]

@Thomas Anderson Ahh I see , Hinduism also has this side where few do this....but it isnt a part of religion, and thanks for the clary

[@shaunamcconnoran6007]

@@SuperVikhyath thats similar to us with yule

[@randyhodges8782]

I thought I was going to make a comment about how freaky you are, but instead, I see how beautiful and human this is.

[@MasterMichelleFL]

Genuine

[@sammaher3560]

This is so beautiful plz more!

[@thisdamnthingy]

This was beautiful Harker, Thank you so much for sharing it with us.

[@chonknorgget1770]

This was very interesting, I'm glad I got to watch it. I enjoyed :)

[@matane2465]

Cool. I went to a Samhain parade in Limerick.

[@raydurz]

I can see why you enjoyed editing this. Beautiful footage. I have some place else I want to go to when I go back to Ireland now.

[@jamesbrummett7294]

Sam, this gives me a time frame for when and where to visit should I get the opportunity to go.

[@tarhunta2111]

That was great. Pagans of the World Unite.

[@cillianranngarsson2762]

I am a very proud Norse pagan from Dublin Ireland Odin and Thor are my god's but my grandfather was a Celtic druid pagan I am hoping to meet some of these lovely people one day

[@D_6660]

Good to see the fire still burns

[@jamesloftus6157]

Fascinating. Good video.

[@jamesbrummett7294]

That would be amazing to experience that festival.

[@masterjunky863]

I really love Ireland from northern Italy

[@masterjunky863]

@novax Northern Italians (excluding the venetians) derive from the celts, the ligurians and to a small extent the etruscans.

[@angelofloveiam50]

What a magnificent video. Happy samhain el dia los muertos happy full blue moon punima

[@-RONNIE]

I'm glad you had a good samhain I did myself. Little late with the video don't worry we'll forgive you.😂😂😂

[@neils123]

Wow, this looks like an amazing experience! What a beautiful ceremony. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[@davidthomerson751]

Tha old old old old old old skool reppin'. 🧙‍♂️. Blessed be yall!

[@AliciaNyblade]

Beautiful ceremony. This year's Samhain will seem especially heavy given how things are globally in autumn of 2020, and it will be a long time before gatherings like this can be held again. But the season and holiday will still come upon us, as they always do, and may it be filled with the warmth of remembrance, good food and drink, and the presence of loved ones from both sides of the veil. Blessed be.

[@AliciaNyblade]

@bill Bloggs It's not about the police, it's about doing your part to not spread a pandemic.

[@markdoherty3718]

This came out so well, great job. Looks like a very enjoyable event, thank you for sharing it. Did you say where this was and I missed it, curious to know if this is an annual event?

[@lotte5743]

This is utterly beautiful, I can only imagine how incredible this experience must have felt. Amazing that this was able to take place

[@Balor1]

I made a point to take a trip to Ireland once for Samhain. I ended up in The Swan Bar on Aungier Street and listening to the fireworks going off.

[@EdwardIglesias]

Nice! Very different from US pagan celebrations I've been to which are more Ren Faire meets Rave.

[@MasterMichelleFL]

This is similar to how the gnostic pagan traditions practice, at least in Florida, especially in the smaller circles. 💚 I think the popularity makes what you find vary so greatly. 💚 (Edit: We have amazing drum circles and raise great energy in our chants, but the energy in the music in this video is INTENSE and beautiful. Go raibh míle maith agat!! SLÁINTE!!💚)

[@jessicamessica2271]

Those hats are a little too ravey. You know druid hats did not look like that

[@user-go3jv8rw7i]

Hill of ward I live ten minutes away from there

[@SirManfly]

such a dark and mysterious girl !!

[@dyuthidharagurunath2280]

Lots of love from an indian hindu, such a beautiful ceremony 🕉 ❤

[@soundkode]

Ní labhraíonn siad Gaeilge fiú.

[@stephenallen3155]

AWSOME! Watching this Ritual So Call d to this 4th gen Texas of Irish ancestry. I too am the 1st Pagan in who knows how ling😢of my family. I mis doin the Rituals here Have no car. Can't get to 'em. But Loves watching this Ritual on 12/17/23. Beannachtaí oraibh go léir

[@veritasnyx]

The West. I've forgotten most of my Celtic mythology, but it's because it's a Solar based religion and the sun-set is in the West,yes? I just wanted to know and share, because what I've studied most recently, the Hermetic art,and the (practical) Kabbalah, the quarter that rules Death is the North, because of its attribution to the Element of Earth, and hence all that is material and passes. All that aside, I fell in love with Celtic Mythology and Druidism (as much as someone that grew up in the 90's North American New Age "Fad" could have) first, and I must say, what a beautiful Ceremony.

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

did you choose that music yourself from knowing it or was that found online? did you come up with the great narration yourself very cool...😊😊

[@fatbeard8072]

This was needed, thank you !

[@IvyRoad]

Wonderful! Thank you so much!

[@noeldoyle4501]

I hope you all had a great celebration!

[@redbudryan9624]

Finally another Ryan partaking in the Old Way

[@ladymorwendaebrethil-feani4031]

WOW.

[@Dreoilin]

Harker, I've been a Gaelic pagan for over 20 yrs. I'm a Draoi on the Sinnsreachd tradition. We do all our rituals in Gaeilge.

[@ashleynadeau2519]

Oh my goodness I would give anything to be there. Amazing!!!

[@TrailofRuin]

Beautifully and respectfully narrated.

[@shannonleighmoseley3664]

So beautiful that was💋🧡

[@badgerrrlattin35]

The night when the veil twixt this world and the next is the thinnest.

[@bealtainecottage]

Samhain blessings to all!

[@tarathorwald8995]

We indoeuropeans must immediately return to our old faiths, hail to Perun!

[@nickibahahahah3605]

As a Celtic pagan I would love to go there 😊

[@spandex.ballet]

I need to know what song is at the beginning. It made me FEEL OMG 😢 This video makes me proud to be Celtic, Irish AND Pagan

[@mollymalone6932]

puca festival in trim and athboy this weekend be full of these rituals, magic mushroom season will most definitely enhance the experience if willing to delve into that realm😁

[@michellenason9501]

So beautiful ,I would love to be a part of this 💜

[@Psychonaut444]

At 5:10 and up, can anybody tell me the name of the songs they're singing? Plz

[@joeundercoffer2567]

Thanks so much for sharing

[@andyarellanoChannel]

We are afflicted with the monster, apart from heimdall and odin shall we call out to the Christ God for deliverance?

[@totallyanonymousbish9599]

I feel so connected to this holiday, I wish I was a native haha🙏🏻

[@tamzenkarma]

You can do this in your back yard...... With a fire

[@MathRaven1910]

Now this is in my dream list of ''What do in Europe" after this all 2020 thing

[@mollymalone6932]

puca festival athboy and trim the true origins of Halloween takes place every October Bank Holiday weekend. all people of every part of society are welcome

[@WolfRyan30]

Beautiful 😍

[@aaroncarson1770]

🌛🥶🌜 Samhaine blue moon blessings.

[@mikey42325]

This is beautiful!

[@jardodraconic9766]

It saddens me to so far that I am on un able to celebrate my beliefs is this way due to my situation if any of you are fellow druid and pagon I'd love to talk

[@mariacoyle8513]

Hello gorgeous production. What song is playing in the beginning? blessings

[@mikegates564]

Great video

[@joeyonejeans7757]

Turnips candles, nuts money ! And black sacks ! And tyres and fires ! That's Halloween in the the good times : not like now! It's all money

[@eddiegould6091]

Beautiful love From scotland

[@whitetiger5215]

Thanks for your video. I'm curious to learn the Celtic culture. But also I'm impressed of the ceremony that was done at the end of this video to show love and respect to the people that had lost their lives and we're sacrificed. This shows that learning Celtic culture and music and dance and teaching it is good. But also it helps to give a story of caution when it comes to curiosity. Because curiosity can lead people astray as the pagans. They can become so curious to join cults and not know what there getting themselves into. Can you please help me to get more information on how to protect and sheild against the dark forces?

[@stigmatizedminstrel1837]

Thanks

[@TheAdamChaney]

I got some Halloween III vibes. Specifically Cochran's speech.

[@nightowl1337]

I doubt the accuracy of these rituals since the druids did not write anything down and kept everything secret

[@johndanielharold3633]

The Druidical Colleges for the most part morphed into Christian monasteries. They certainly wrote a lot, preserving not just Latin and Greek texts but also a huge amount of pre-Christian culture. The Druids themselves were well acquainted with writing systems but eschewed them as they claimed writing vulgarised the memory. They committed enormous amounts of knowledge to memory with the aid of poetic metre.