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Halloween has origins in the ancient Gaelic festival known as Samhain , which is dervied from Old Irish and means roughly “summer's end“. A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf (pronounced kalan-geyf). The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the “lighter half“ of the year and beginning of the “darker half“, and is sometimes regarded as the “Celtic New Year“. It could be seen as a festival of the dead. The ancient Gaels believed that the border between this worl
