In the Anglosphere, most notably in Anglo-America, autumn is also associated with the Halloween season ( which in turn was influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival ), and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it, in the U. S. A.

Beltane and Samhain were the leading terminal dates of the civil year in medieval Ireland, though the latter festival was the more important.

Like the festival of Samhain, opposite Beltane on 31 October, Beltane was also a time when the Otherworld was seen as particularly close at hand.

Imbolc was one of the four cross-quarter days referred to in Irish mythology, the others being Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain.

Lyle Preslar was briefly a member of Glenn Danzig's Samhain, and his playing appears on a few songs on the band's first record.

The date of Samhain was later associated with the Catholic All Saints ' Day ( and later All Souls ' Day ) from at least the 8th century, and both the Gaelic and the Catholic liturgical festival have influenced the secular customs now connected with Halloween.

Traditionally, Samhain was time to take stock of the herds and grain supplies, and decide which animals would need to be slaughtered in order for the people and livestock to survive the winter.

Samhain was the traditional time for slaughter, for preparing stores of meat and grain to last through the coming winter.

From the cave, on Samhain, the goddess Morrígan was said to emerge.

The Hill of Ward in Co. Meath was the site of a Samhain gathering ; the Iron Age ringfort is said to have been where the goddess or druid Tlachtga died, giving birth to triplets that resulted from rape.

A connection of the medieval feis of Samhain with pre-Christian traditions was drawn by the " notoriously unreliable " Geoffrey Keating ( died 1644 ), who claimed that the druids of Ireland would assemble on the night of Samhain to kindle a sacred fire.

The Romans identified Samhain with their own feast of the dead, the Lemuria, which was observed in the days leading up to May 13.

Traditionally, in Celtic and Germanic Europe, the feast of Samhain ( called Allelieweziel in DeitschSchreiwer, Robert L. < i > A Brief Introduction to Urglaawe .</ i > Bristol, PA: Deitscherei. com, 2009 .</ ref >) was specially associated with the deceased, and, in these countries, it was still customary to set a place for them at table on this day until relatively recent times.

In Irish mythology, Cas Corach was a hero who helped Caílte mac Rónáin kill three werewolf-like creatures, the daughters of Airitech who would come out of the Cave of Cruachan every year around Samhain and destroy sheep.

An early High King, Tigernmas, along with three quarters of his army, is said to have died while worshipping Crom on Samhain eve, but worship continued until the cult image was destroyed by St. Patrick with a sledgehammer.

On July 14, 1986, Samhain performed at The Ritz in New York in what was to be their final show.

A long-planned Samhain box set was also released, followed by a Samhain reunion tour.

Danzig is the 1988 debut album of the American heavy metal band Danzig, led by Glenn Danzig who was formerly the songwriter and vocalist of the Misfits and Samhain.

The skull, also used on the Samhain albums Initium and November-Coming-Fire, was taken from the cover of the Marvel comic book The Saga of Crystar, Crystal Warrior ( issue 8 ).

According to Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, the term Céad Shamhain or Cétshamhainin means " first half ", which he links to the Gaulish word samonios ( which he suggests means " half a year ") as in the end of the " first half " of the year that begins at Samhain.

* The first day of Samhain, officially started at Samhain Eve, at the sunset of October 31.

The 10th-century Tochmarc Emire, Samhain is the first of the four " quarter days " of the year mentioned by the heroine Emer.

In trying to make false peace with her brother, Mongfind offered Crimthann a poisoned drink at the Samhain feast, but he challenged her to take a drink from it first.

Celtic Reconstructionist Pagans tend to celebrate Samhain on the date of first frost, or when the last of the harvest is in and the ground is dry enough to have a bonfire.

It is the first of the three autumn harvest festivals, the other two being the Autumn equinox ( also called Mabon by Wiccans ) and Samhain.

Upon his arrival in New Jersey, Christ would share an apartment with Samhain drummer London May, for whom Christ had performed his first band audition.

The name Halloween is first attested in the 16th century as a Scottish shortening of the fuller All-Hallows-Even, and according to some historians has its roots in the gaelic festival Samhain, where the Gaels believed the border between this world and the otherworld became thin, and the dead would revisit the mortal world.

After Minor Threat dissolved, he played guitar in The Meatmen and the first incarnation of Samhain.

The remixed versions were released as a standalone CD for the first time as part of the Samhain Box Set in 1999 and as an individual CD in 2000.

The name Halloween is first attested in the 16th century as a Scottish shortening of the fuller All-Hallows-Eve, and according to some historians it has its roots in the gaelic festival Samhain, where the Gaels believed the border between this world and the otherworld became thin, and the dead would revisit the mortal world.

The name Halloween is first attested in the 16th century as a Scottish shortening of All-Hallows-Even, and according to some historians it has its roots in the Gaelic festival of Samhain, when the Gaels believed the border between this world and the otherworld became thin, and the dead would revisit the mortal world.

Arguably the most famous and influential punk band from New Jersey is The Misfits founded in 1977 in Lodi, New Jersey, by singer and songwriter Glenn Danzig, who in 1983 broke from the band and formed Samhain and in 1988 Danzig.

The lyrics join them in celebration of a triumphant return on Samhain night, when the deadways between the worlds are at their closest and most vulnerable to rupture.

There and in Ireland, they had been celebrating Samhain and Halloween since the early Middle Ages, and the kirk took a more pragmatic approach towards Halloween, viewing it as important to the life cycle and rites of passage of local communities and thus ensuring its survival in the country.

The tale The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn includes an important scene at Samhain.

The event takes usually takes place just before or after Halloween weekend and draws inspiration from four traditions: Burning Man, Samhain, Día de los Muertos and All Hallows ' Eve.

He built four fortresses in Meath: Tlachtga, where the druids sacrificed on the eve of Samhain, on land taken from Munster ; Uisneach, where the festival of Beltaine was celebrated, on land from Connacht ; Tailtiu, where Lughnasadh was celebrated, on land from Ulster ; and Tara, on land from Leinster.

In days past rule would be divided between the courts, the Seelie court ruling in the Summer months from Beltaine to Samhain, and the Unseelie court in Winter from Samhain to Beltaine, but now an uneasy truce exists and each court rules its own regions.

Some of her songs are about Celtic feast days such as All Souls Night about Samhain on The Visit CD which featured in the erotic thriller film Jade starring David Caruso and " Huron Beltane Fire Dance " on the Parallel Dreams CD.

The medieval Goidelic festival of Samhain marked the end of the harvest, the end of the " lighter half " of the year and beginning of the " darker half ".

The Modern Irish word Samhain is derived from the Old Irish samain, samuin, or samfuin, all referring to 1 November ( latha na samna: ' samhain day '), and the festival and royal assembly held on that date in medieval Ireland ( oenaig na samna: ' samhain assembly ').

Ronald Hutton notes that while medieval Irish authors do attribute a historical pagan significance to the Beltane festival, they are silent in this respect in regard to Samhain, apparently because no tradition of pagan ritual had survived into the Christian period.

Keating's History is more a compilation of traditions than a reliable history, but in this case scholars point to references in early Irish poetry and the existence of a closed hunting season for deer and wild boar between Samhain and Beltaine in medieval Scotland as corroboration.