Happy Halloween and October! All Hallows’ Eve (Halloween) is my favorite time of year because of the trees changing colors, the weather cools down, the festivities of the holidays begin and children get to dress up as their favorite characters and collect candy! But do any of you know where Halloween came from and why we celebrate it? “Halloween can be traced directly back to SAMHAIN, the ancient Celtic harvest festival honoring the Lord of the Dead. Observed on November 1 in the British Isles and parts of what is now France, Samhain also marked the beginning of the Celtic New Year, while Samhain Eve marked the end of the old year. The night was a time of transition between the old and the new, a time when the separation between the world of the living and the world of the dead was very thin. On Samhain Eve the boundary between this world and the netherworld of fairies, gods, spirits, and magic was at its thinnest. As a result, passage between the two dimensions was easier t