HALLOWEEN
            Christian term:
            All Hallows Eve = night before All Saints’ Day)

CELTS:        
     north west of Europe
              (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany)

     vs England as Anglo-Saxon (Germanic)
               after invasions from the continent

RELIGION:
      DRUIDS as priests, little known about them
      Roman sources (Caesar’s Gallic Wars)
                   describe human sacrifice

CELTIC RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL:

        SAMHAIN  (pronounced sow-in)  October 31
             boundary between living and dead lifted
             Druid priests  light bonfires

ROMAN CONQUEST of Celtic lands by 1^st C. AD

CHRISTIANITY by 9^th C AD

Policy of assimilation of earlier religious feasts:

7^th C. Pope Boniface IV: Nov 1 as All Saints’ Day
                                       Nov 2 as All Souls’ Day