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All Hallows Quilt Block
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Every year I learn more about Halloween and the origin of the holiday.
This year is no exception. In my research to discover about All Hallows, I found that November 1 is All Hallow’s Day, the beginning of the Celtic New Year, or Samhain.
The Celtic year begins with An Geamhradh – the beginning of the dark winter – and ends with Am Foghar – the Celtic harvest.
According to Celtic mythology, the Celtic New Year was a gap in time when the dead could return to warm themselves in the places they lived “in our world.”
For the welcome visitors, people put food and drinks for the dead and left their doors open to allow them into their homes. And, to stop the evil spirits from entering, Celts carved images of spirit guardians onto turnips and placed them by their front doors.
Called ‘jack o’lanterns,’ eventually turnips turned into the hallowed out pumpkins with candles that are so familiar today.
The celebration of the Celtic New Year begins at sundown the day before All Hallow’s Day (hence, the celebration of Halloween on October 31). Samhain marks a link between the worlds of the living and the dead, and for one night, the structure of society was allowed to dissolve.
For years, young people have been allowed to dress up like dead spirits and move around cities performing Halloween activities and playing pranks on their elders.
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Happy Quilting!
Penny Halgren
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