Oct 17 2024 36 mins
🎃 Join Michael and Wendy as they discuss Halloween's ancient roots, tracing its origins from the Celtic festival of Samhain to the modern-day spookfest we all know and love. Tune in for a mix of historical insights and quirky facts to make you the life (or afterlife) of any Halloween party.
Prepare to be enchanted and entertained in this ghoulishly good episode! 🕸️👻
Sources:
- 31 Halloween Fun Facts Both Kids and Adults Will Find Fascinating
- 20 Fun and Impressive Halloween Facts to Test Your Knowledge This Year
- 55 fun Halloween facts that are wicked good
- Halloween Data Center
- Bathurst relaxes ban on trick-or-treating for some teens, rolls back curfew
- https://thebusypagan.com/pagan-holidays/samhain/#:~:text=Samhain%20is%20not%20just%20another,greater%20communication%20with%20the%20deceased
- https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/samhain
- https://www.history.com/news/halloween-trick-or-treating-origins
- https://www.thecollector.com/roman-goddess-who-is-pomona/
- https://oldsoulartisan.com/blogs/library/the-legend-of-stingy-jack?srsltid=AfmBOopksOrRpXqPXwndnUiywPyi7c16sk1BWrpJ7acXlKuUp2x-OxJm
- https://yourirish.com/folklore/irish-pookas
- https://www.wildernessireland.com/blog/irish-folklore-puca/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUGEuNkfMpc