Samhain : The Celtic Fire Festival and Pagan Origins of Halloween.

[@TheStoryCrow]

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[@wik9304]

Let's sing loud and proud the songs of our ancestors. Let's keep the stories alive! 🙏 Rejoice, and happy Samhain to the all beings. Thank you for always being amazing!

[@TheStoryCrow]

Blessed be friend 🙏✨

[@fionafitz8447]

✨🕸️🕯️

[@Xinoismyname]

Thank you so much for this I'm pretty sure I'm the first Pagan ever to be in my family

[@wendi4418]

Thsnk you! I have learned so much from you & your wonderous stories! Love it, please dont stop!

[@TheStoryCrow]

I'm so glad! ✨🧙

[@AGQuantum]

I'm so happy I found your channel. Your videos are great for my kids to watch. Thank you.

[@alexandrapoole997]

I'm so happy to see your channel grow! You're a delight!!

[@drewknoles3258]

Happy Halloween!!

[@TheStoryCrow]

Right back atchya! 🎃 👻

[@tiangarimu7844]

Māori also celebrate Matariki which marks the Māori new year (start of winter, end of June) with similar practises to Samhain and Dia de los muertos😊✨with fires at night, food offerings but to the stars of Matariki and passed on loved ones

[@sevikasstar]

that sounds so beautiful!

[@katestrickland8669]

Absolutely loved this video Many Blessings

[@fionafitz8447]

Had a lucky stumble onto your channel. So grateful for your wonderful stories and the moid you weave. On this blustery rainy east coast of the US Halloween i wish everyone a happy Halloween (samhain) My gparents from Ireland and we used to also have barm brack yum. Definitely lit votives to the ancestors àt church

[@TheStoryCrow]

Waving over a blustery sea 🌊🐦‍⬛🍺✨

[@fionafitz8447]

@@TheStoryCrow 👋🌊🌬️🍻 slainte, seanchai. Great stuff.

[@worgia]

Thank you for another great video. I love your storytelling and incredible knowledge you share with us. Makes me miss Britain a lot (ex pat here), especially when it started raining 🌧️💙

[@TheStoryCrow]

Never stops raining at the moment 😂

[@twistinbiscuitz4646]

This was fascinating. Thank you for the story, and love to your Mum for the storyteller that she raised!

[@Lili_1974]

What a lovely video. Thank you so much for sharing. Learned a lot ❤

[@MiraChan]

The rain really adds to this one. Thank you for your knowledge!

[@adventurecreations3214]

Another good video. Blessings for you and your Mum. She'll always be with you.

[@theurbanshaman6255]

I'm so glad your video dropped in! Your way of speaking really resonates. It's real & elemental. ❤

[@Foxiepawstotti]

The veil is thin at Samhain as they used to say when I was young. I have the same view of parallel worlds occupying the same place but on another "frequency" as you just described, I have done since my childhood in the 1960s.

[@xxmrbunsxx]

Thanks!

[@TheStoryCrow]

Thanks for the tip 🙏 I’ll spend it on a nice Moroccan coffee ☕️ cheers ☺️

[@drowsyZot]

Wonderful! I always feel very connected to the ancient stories on Halloween. Also, I'm so sorry for your loss last year

[@TheStoryCrow]

Me too 🧙‍♀️👻🎃✨

[@sophiapaulekas4767]

I love this so much, thank you! Subscribing today 😊

[@TheStoryCrow]

Welcome aboard 🏴‍☠️🙏🐦‍⬛

[@danielaborhidan3815]

Heloo from Madrid. Very good story thanks..🤗🤗

[@PhilipMcAuley-pt8dv]

Loved this. Thank you!

[@ahalley709]

Great video 🎃! We celebrate Guy Fawkes Night in Newfoundland.

[@TheStoryCrow]

Really? Blimey. That must be your West Country ancestors I imagine that brought that over

[@OttomanHabsburg]

Amazing teacher and engaging story!

[@Phorquieu]

Great and lively explanation of the holiday and its very ancient roots - This was very helpful!

[@TheStoryCrow]

Glad it was helpful!

[@6canadian6winter6]

Typically we prey to our passed away loved ones knowing they can hear us clearly , unfortunately this year I completely forgot due to working a 12 hour shift and being so tired and I can’t tell you how upset i am that I didn’t get to tell my grandparents and other loved ones how much they meant to me I still cry when I think of missing it next Samhain I need to let them know how much they meant to me me and how much I can feel their presence 😔

[@TheStoryCrow]

Hey, you have all November some say, and Yule too. From Samhain to the winter equinox. All spirit times. The door in the year. No need to wait. Let them know 🙏☺️

[@6canadian6winter6]

@ thank you , much love and respect 🙏

[@violetlefey7634]

Fabulous job! Just love your stuff. Thanks much. Blessed Samhain/

[@TheStoryCrow]

Thank you so much!

[@thisweirdkidbummer3266]

Very cool video!!

[@VondaInWonderland]

I would like to hear more about the ¿She?"I'm not sure how you spell it," and Faeries. You are a great story teller 🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@TheStoryCrow]

Sìdhe. But there’s plenty of English language words for essentially the same thing And plenty of vids on the subject on my channel Thanks for watching 🙏✨☺️

[@VondaInWonderland]

@@TheStoryCrow Ohhhhhh, thank you! I will take a scroll down.

[@leeetchells609]

Watch out for those fairies. They are not the ' fairies ' of modern culture. They can take your children or other family member over to the fairy realm and leave a doppelganger in thier place! Just stay away from hawthorn trees at night 😮😮

[@xxmrbunsxx]

Absolutely love your content!!!!

[@TheStoryCrow]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@MrLOKIISHERE]

A year later still holds up….good interpretation and concise

[@Foretelling]

Obviously dude. The ancient festival didn’t change.

[@MrLOKIISHERE]

@@Foretelling Which one? He outlined a few harvest celebrations…or are you just being sarcastic for the internet.

[@BenjyaminSaturnHaunebu777_3]

Thank you for this great Video.

[@TheStoryCrow]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@valeriewatson5260]

Thank you so much for your interesting video, really enjoyed your explanation of the season and it’s pagan beginnings, Samhain is a very important time for me, I hope you drew close to your mum at this special time, my ancestors were at my dinner table last night in spirit … Blessings my friend 🖤 I would be interested should you decide to speak on magick and witchcraft as it’s my passion 🧙

[@TheStoryCrow]

Gotcha. Witchcraft video inbound. Thanks for stopping by ☺️🧙‍♀️✨

[@hArtyTruffle]

Thankyou as always ✨🙏✨🍻 edit: can’t believe I missed this one 😮👻

[@corinneyoung8166]

thank you love you

[@FreeYourMind-e9h]

Missed the intro and ending music.. Happy Halloween or Samhain (never would have known how to pronounce it from the spelling). When you speak of witches, you speak as if they were real. I always thought that accusations of witchcraft were drummed up charges based on fear, attempts to extinguish paganism, and over active puritanical imagination. In the US the usual viewpoint of the Salem Witch Trials is that it was mass hysteria-. I would love to hear you do a video on witches- real and imagined and the burning times.

[@TheStoryCrow]

This is a great idea for a video. Thanks. Yes, mass hysteria and good old fashioned misogyny and fear of anything fringe played a huge part, both in the US and Europe. But witches, both male and female, were very much historical people too. Usually herbalists or cunning folk, and practitioners of ‘low magic’ like finding lost belongings and diving the future. A lot of these practises may have been based on pagan remnants, and could be termed a kind of European shamanism, but within a Christian context usually.

[@davidconsidine1023]

Hi to all here in 2024

[@kalanit2013]

Happy Halloween from Finland

[@davidconsidine1023]

@kalanit2013 also happy samhain from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@TheStoryCrow]

Sláinte, Kippis and cheers to the both of yous this punkie night 👻🍄🍺🐦‍⬛✨🙏

[@user-ol1zk3kv1d]

So you mean tell me Colonel Cochran was right?..🎃🎃🎃 lol Happy Halloween 💀👽👻🕷️🕸️🦇🧛‍♂️☠️🦴

[@eoinmaccormaic7057]

Beow-ta-na not Bell-tane 😔

[@TheStoryCrow]

Well, you’re not going to like this, but the anglicised word is from Scottish Gallic. So it’s a bit different from the contemporary Irish pronunciation, in this particular case, but I do genuinely appreciate the effort to educate. My pronunciation of many Celtic language words could be better. You should hear my Welsh 😭

[@katanaki3059]

This is a liminal time! Feasting! And he stuck a spear in his head so he’d stay awake! It’s all about coming together, aspects of the other side indeed

[@TheBolillo310]

Time to go trick or treating, who is with me?

[@martinconnors6200]

Samhain

[@TheStoryCrow]

Samhain.

[@DavidKokaska]

I’d like to Be-a-CROW this years….

[@kurtsteiner8384]

Very interesting never realised guy faulkes was catholic. I live not far from lewes in sussex it is today still a pagan town, and yes the do have fire festivals and burn the pope on nivembet 5th.

[@kathleensmith644]

November 5th is Bon Fire Night! Nothing to do with Halloween. Halloween was a pagan festival. It is NOT the trick or treating that America has made it and turned it into some kind of horror festival. It is actually a pagan New Years Eve festival and the 21st December is YULE the shortest day, when light begins to return to the world and the days start to grow longer..

[@kathleensmith644]

Also Guy Faulks was born in York.

[@eoinmaccormaic7057]

Lun-AH-sa

[@TheStoryCrow]

Fair dues, cheers 🙏😊

[@73lilfsithfromJuggaloforJesus]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@darrenrice7225]

we light bonfires on halloween in Ireland every year. Nothing to do with Guy Fawks.

[@TheStoryCrow]

Cool! Don’t think I said it was 😂

[@AntUasalÓNiadh]

Christ is King.

[@TheStoryCrow]

He’s not the messiah he’s a very naughty boy!