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The Real Story of Halloween That History Forgot. Halloween Series Part 1 of 2

Most of what we’ve been told about Halloween isn’t wrong, it’s incomplete.Today, I want to talk about Halloween as it was and the parts that were lost when others began to rewrite it.

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Oct 22, 2026
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Halloween’s Ancient Roots

Halloween comes from an older tradition called Samhain; spelled S-A-M-H-A-I-N, but pronounced “Sow-in.”
It was the ancient Celtic festival marking the end of the harvest and the start of winter. To specific, It is the ancient sector of Celtic peoples known as the Druids that created what we now know as Halloween

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