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The decorated Wellhead on Samhain Eve  
   

The decorated Wellhead on Samhain Eve

Ancient Fires: Samhain night in Glastonbury

November 1st 2008
It’s Samhain morning. Tonight is the most important night in the Pagan calendar, when the veils between the worlds are extra-ordinarily thin. The Celts celebrated ‘All Hallowtide’, known as Halloween in the modern world, as the ‘Feast of the Dead’, when the dead revisited the mortal world. The festival marks the end of summer and the start of the winter months, and the Celtic New Year tr ... read more
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