'Gaels believed that it was a time when the walls between our world and the next became thin and porous' AARGH FFS NO https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/halloween-2019-celtic-trick-or-treating-gaelic-turnip-carving/amp/?__twitter_impression=true …
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Find a reference to a Gaelic belief in 'walls between the worlds' from before the 20th century, I double bloody dare you
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Replying to @Cavalorn
There is a saga text from the 9th c( reworked later though) where Conn Cétchathach, passes through fog to follow a warrior who ends up being Lug but it’s definitely not a Samhain thing.
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And just to clarify he goes to Lug’s throne or something so it’s an implied to be the Otherworld, but yeah.
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I say this as someone who thinks there is something to be gleaned from EM Irish texts about pre-Christian beliefs: the shit that people come up with around Samhain etc is some of the most annoying nonsense ever and it makes studying these belief systems nigh impossible.
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Largely because attempting to do any research on this nets me the worst results, and they are usually over 100 years old during that Gaelic paganism obsession/inventions and also I get associated with the people who perpetuate said nonsense.
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