24/10/2023
Halloween (All - Hallow’s - Eve) the Celtic Festival ☘️ of Samhain, the New Year. Feast marking the end of Summer ☀️ and the beginning of winter ❄️. The Romans made it coincide with the feast of the dead which fell in May, later taken up by the Christians and celebrated on November 2 🍁. With the migrations it was brought to the United States 🇺🇸 where the pumpkins 🎃 was adopted, easier to find.
Common traditions with the Celtic are those of the Roman Goddess of fruits Pomona 🍏 and the feast of the dead of Parentalia. In Puglia, in Orsara the feast of bonfires and heads of Purgatory.
The Celts were ancient warrior tribes from Eastern Europe who settled around Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland 🇨🇭, in the locality of La Tene.
The Romans called them Gauls while the Greeks called them Keltoi, the Celts precisely.
Both feared the Celts who completely sacked Rome in the 4th century AD and they were described by scholars of the time as proud and daring warriors.
The Celts reached Puglia along the Adriatic road.
Happy Halloween 👻 🎃
