# @smeharbinger on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CkLZNWtOSi3
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/22490693-smeharbinger-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-10-26T13:07:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Harbinger (@SMEHarbinger) — https://gondola.cc/SMEHarbinger

## Caption

When it comes to Halloween, what's not to love? The chilly weather, the scary movies, the pumpkins and bottomless bowls of Kit Kats and Reeses. But most of all, the traditions are what make the season so exciting, from carving Jack-O-Lanterns, dressing up in costume and trick-or-treating.

But, how did the best holiday of the year come to be? It's kind of an odd one, with no apparent reason for celebration except to stuff our faces with M&Ms and party all night. The true origins of Halloween are much deeper than cheap costumes and ghost stories.

Over 2,000 years ago, the ancient Celtic Pagans observed the death of summer and beginning of harvest season with a festival called “Samhain”, pronounced sah-win. This was seen as the time where the veils between our world and the spirit world were thinnest, and ghosts, fairies and other spirits were most likely to be seen in the human world. They lit huge bonfires to either ward off or guide spirits entering our realm, and tried to tell the future to make use of the magical and prophetical time.

This is the original Halloween — a Pagan ritual festival. 

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