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nanamis-username · 6 months

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samhain 🧡 a banshee & a dullahan

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wiltingdecay · 2 years

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rowan is probably so fucking annoying to everybody around halloween. “hey did you know that WE invented this??” headass at every opportunity he sees.

#in my mind arcanaverse oíche samhna/samhain/whatever it'd be called is like. the only thing iniscrainn is known for lmao #rowan aisling #rowan lore

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hyphinett · 6 months

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Oíche Samhna Sona Duit🦇

The fear of the unknown is an evolutionary curse that pervades all of humanity. Maybe, however it is not the unknown we should fear, but the known. That lurking darkness around the edge of the frame. A manmade horror in which this very night is trapped.

⚠️ FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING⚠️

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#new music #new song #lofi #halloween #visualizer #halloween music #spooky music #pocket operator #po33 #happy halloweeeeeeen #Youtube

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unicorn-shieldmaiden · 1 year

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Oíche Samhna shona daoibh!

Happy Halloween all! Watching a pretty dramatic storm roll in off the mountain here.

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dianasson · 2 years

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Full of gratitude and giddiness to have had such a full festival this year. With a heap of help and as much energy as whiskey can lend, Oíche Shamhna and Samhain were both a splendid success.

🔥🎃🥃🍎🕯

Pumpkins and turnips glowed at the door, friends chased new friends blindfolded, saucers told the future, bellies took their fill of potatoes and nuts, cheese and apples, and stories smoked in the air around the fire.

As Demetri pointed out, this was the "last of the firsts." The anniversary of my move to Maine approaches, and I have now held each of the year's festivals in my new home. So grateful that I can share so many of them with a new community here and old commumities far away. 🖤

Praying for a peaceful winter for ourselves and our loved ones who have passed away. I wish for full tables and warm hearths, and for the good health so I can share my table with more of you. Beannachtaí na Samhna oraibh.

📸 cred to Demetri for MOST of these!! 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8!!!

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[Image descriptions, all color photos:

1. Carved pumpkins and turnips glowing in the gloom, on a ledge before a golden-glowing window. The rest of the scene is darkly shadowed.

2. Figure in a black cloak and cap ties a black blindfold around the head of a blonde person in a flannel shirt and black skirt. A daylit park with fall leaves, grass, and a couple cars is behind them.

3. Same person tying the same blindfold around a bald, bearded person with a black shirt. Behind them are fir trees and in the distance more fall leaves and a bright sky.

4. People racing around a grassy park. The central figure is blindfolded, in all black, hands outstretched. The other two prominent figures are blurry with movement, racing around the blindfolded person. There’s another clear, still figure to the right of the frame. There are houses and trees beyond the grass, a street lamp is on and the clouds are darkening.

5. A small child in a leather jacket smiles, a Jason Vorhies ski mask perched on their head and a plastic machete in their hands. Beyond the child is grass and trees.

6. Two figures are collapsed in the grass and fall leaves, laughing together. One has a blindfold slipped up to their forehead to free their eyes.

7. Two figures in black stand in a kitchen. The one on the left is blindfolded, extending a ringed hand toward three saucers on the table. The one on the left looks on, with clasped hands. A white pumpkin and orange glass candle holder are on the table in the foreground.

8. Offerings gathered around a reddish clay figure of a hunched old woman. There is a mug, a glowing, thick, white candle on a white saucer, a red apple, a clear glass full of amber liquid, a blue glass, and a sliver of cheese and bread is barely included in the shot. Ivy and cedar leaves are tucked in around the dishes. Behind the clay figure are the panels of a green house and a purple and white shutter. Beyond the house, a golden tree against a dim sky another pale house. End descriptions.]

#oiche shamhna #samhain #halloween #harvest #folklore #irish folklore #festival #personal #me #halloween games #oiche shamhna games #divination #offerings

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i-will-ascend · 3 years

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A sign you'll be fucking dead before the next Oíche Samhna, you absolute twat.

Yes! Yes! Just to be REBORN again! I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO IT!

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andro--gyny · 3 years

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Halloween, Oíche Shamhna, Lá Samhna, Neo-Pagan Samhain, Día de Muertos, La Calabiuza, and my birthday. An actual 13th blue moon to close out the Witch's Year on the Neo-Pagan New Year that is Samhain?! I'm not Wiccan but I can't wait to see what that magic brings regardless. An eclipse coming as well. Woo! Action packed next few days! The Ancestors and Mighty Dead have been very strong and active this Dead Season. La Santísima and Her Husband Mictlantecuhtli really out here ready to shower in miracles. Can't wait to see what the future brings! May one book close and another more blessed narrative begin. A new story, new chapter open up.

#sidenote: did people really rip out the Wikipedia section address Day of the Dead being observed outside of Mexico?#People practice it in the rest of Central and Southern America #día de muertos #el salvador #Samhain #Halloween #out here to get that demon dick #full moon - where my 14 werewolf boyfriends at?#dancing with death #flirting with death #conjuring the spirit spouse #fetch mate and fetch beast lovin'#devil daddy time!

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gilbent · 6 years

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Moira on October first dressed in a black rubbish bag and wearing a witch's hat, lighting a huge bonfire made of stolen furniture in the middle of Talon HQ, all while Gabriel gets the fireworks:

🎃OÍCHE SAMHNA🎃

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gaeilge101 · 7 years

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Halloween | Oíche Shamhna

IRISH 101 | GAEILGE 101

The night we call Halloween (All Hallow’s Eve) originated in Ireland. Halloween - Oíche Shamhna (EE-hyeh HOW-nuh) in the Irish language. Literally meaning “Samhain Eve” (“Samhna” is the genitive of “Samhain”).

Samhain, pronounced SOW-in, with the first syllable rhyming with “cow”. It literally means “Summer’s End”, it has the same root as “Samhradh” (SOW-ruh) which means summer. Samhain is also the month of November in Irish, so Samhain Eve is the night before the 1st of November. It was a time to celebrate the end of the harvest season. It also marks the Celtic new year: 1st November is Celtic New Year’s day.

VOCABULARY

HALLOWEEN — Oíche Shamhna [EE-hah HOW-nah]

WITCH (old hag) — cailleach [KAHL-lock]

WITCH (sorcerer) — asarlaí [ASS-er-lee]

MASK — masc [mawsk]

MOON — gealach [GAH-lock]

NUTS — cnónna [kih-NOH-nah]

BAT — ialtóg [ILL-tohg]

GRAVEYARD — reilig [RIH-lig]

BLOOD — fuil [fwill]

TRICK-OR-TREAT — bob-nó-bia [bob no BEE-ah]

(AN IRISH) SPIRIT — púca [POO-kah]

SKELETON — creatlach [CRAT-lock]

WITCH’S HAT — hata biorach [HAH-tah BEER-rock]

CAT — cat [cawt]

BLACK CLOAK — clóca dubh [KLOW-kah dove]

UGLY — gránna [GRAW-nah]

BARMBRACK — báirín breac [baw-REEN brahk]

BOWL — babhla [BOW-lah]

PUMPKIN — puimcín [PWIM-keen]

BROOM — scuab [SKOO-ab]

PARTY — cóisir [KOH-sher]

COSTUME / FANCY DRESS — culaith [KUH-lah]

TRICK — cleas [klass]

BONE — cnámh [knawv]

BONFIRE — tine chnámh [TIN-ah knawv]

APPLES — úlla [OO-lah]

SPIDER WEB — líon damhán alla [LEEN DAW-wan AW-lah]

TOMB — tuama [TOO-ah-mah]

FRUIT — toradh [TOUR-ah]

SWEETS — milseáin [MILL-shawn]

SKULL — blaosc [blaysk]

SPOOKY — scáfar [SCAW-four]

COFFIN — cónra [KOON-rah]

MUMMY — seargán [SHEER-gawn]

VAMPIRE — vaimpír [VAM-peer]

ZOMBIE — zombaí [zom-bye]

GRAVE — uaigh [OO-ah]

GRAVESTONE — leac uaighe [LAK OOH-ah]

GHOST — taibhse [THIVE-shah]

SPIRIT — sprid [sprid]

CAULDRON — coire [KORR-ah]

FRIGHTENING — scanrúil [SKAN-rool]

SUPERSTITION — piseog [PIH-shohg]

PHRASES

HAPPY HALLOWEEN — Oíche Shamhna Shona Duit [EE-hah HOW-nah SUN-ah ditch]

HALLOWEEN COSTUME — culaith oíche shamhna [KULL-ah EE-hah HOW-nah]

I AM A (GHOST / WITCH etc) — Is (taibhse) mé [iss THIVE-shah may]

TREMBLING WITH FEAR — ar crith le heagla [air crih le HAG-lah]

FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE — ó theach go teach [oh hock guh tjock]

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gilbent · 6 years

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I hate how so many corny spiritualists approach Samhain. I hate how they think it's rightfully theirs because of their mishmashed pseudo-pagan practices that have more in common with bored Victorian English people looking for parlour games than any sort of reverent belief.

I hate how they pretend all the old traditions have been lost and need their One True intervention specifically to keep it alive because looking at how people in Ireland still celebrate Halloween/oíche Samhna doesn't fit in with the aesthetic they're trying to cultivate.

Bonfires, carving autumnal vegetables and feasting aren't mysterious and cool when people actually still do it, I guess.

#light a fire and enjoy november lads #no it's not real cultural appropriation or anything #it's just twee and insincere

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