The Dark Origins of Halloween 🎃🕯️ | Ancient Celtic Rituals, Ghost Stories & the Birth of a Spooky Tradition | Boring History For Sleep

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Halloween may be famous for carved pumpkins, costumes, and trick-or-treating, but its roots reach back thousands of years. Long before modern celebrations, ancient Celtic communities marked the changing seasons with Samhain, a festival associated with the harvest, the coming of winter, and the mysterious boundary between the living and the dead. How did an ancient seasonal festival become one of the world's most recognizable holidays? Why did people once wear disguises and tell stories about…