HALLOWEEN IS REALLY PAGAN...NO.
Halloween WAS A Catholic Observance
Every year we see the same slop repeated in one form or another, regurgitating the same nonsense and then used as a platform to redirect people's beliefs towards something often contrary or "darker or spooky" which is all pseudo-history slop.
The first thing we need to do is clear up the nonsense from modern fictions and go back to actual historical facts. To note, Samhain is recorded in Sanas Cormaic (Cormac's Glossary), written around 900 c.e. by Cormac mac Cuilennáin, the king-bishop of Munster. He explicitly glossed samain as "summer sunset" which was around the end of modern September to the first part of October.
Cormac specifically writes: samfuin .i. fuin in t-samraid ("sam-fuin, that is, the sunset/end of summer"). It shows here that he was also more or less reinventing words which many scholars have cited assuming it had more of a sense of gathering (less in th…
