Celtic Festival Of Samhain. This celtic tradition is still observed by some. Samhain translates to “summer’s end” and is usually celebrated from october 31 to november 1 to welcome the harvest and acknowledge and greet “the dark half of the year.
Ancient celts marked samhain as the most significant of the four quarterly fire festivals, taking place at the midpoint between the fall equinox and the winter solstice. Samhain marks the midpoint between.