The season of Samhain, also called All Hallow's Eve and Halloween, comes with the thinning of the veil, or lowering of realms between the living and the dead. It can be viewed as a time when Summer is fading away and Winter is closing in. It's for many celebrations including the honouring of ancestors with warm spiced food and drink.
A holiday named Winter Nights that happens roughly middle of October, sometimes viewed as the turn of a new year by the Germanics. The season of Samhain and Winternights is famous for pumpkins, apples and bonfires, as well as ghosts. Meditation, scrying, rune divination and spirit communication works stronger at this time.
Another interesting fact is a Norse ritual called Alfblot, occurring late in October. It was regarded as a sacrifice of animals to the elves. It was considered sacred and was a private ceremony done in homesteads instead of in public at great halls or in the open town squares. No one would dare to interrupt them and no outsider would think of bursting in. Today the ritual sacrifice has been replaced to eating red meat. Both Celtic and Germanic made small contained fires (later on it was lanterns were made with putting candles in hollow pumpkins and turnips).
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