Samhain & Halloween

(draft — to be rewritten from the ledger) On Samhain, the night that ended summer in the Celtic calendar, the border between this world and the other was said to loosen. It overlapped with the eve of All Saints, crossed to North America with its migrants, and changed into the festival of costumes and sweets. A night when strange visitors call at the door — grown by commerce into one of the world's largest masquerades.