Which pagan holidays does Halloween originate from?

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A combination of the Roman "Ferella" and "Pomona" holidays which honor the dead and fruit and flowers with "Samhain" from the Celtic harvest celebration that also thanked the ghost of the dead that protected their fields and crops.

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Halloween originated from the Pagan festival of Samhain (pronounced sawain). This is the time when the Mother becomes the Crone (Maiden - spring, mother - summer and autumn, crone - winter). It is a time of looking inwards and finding inner demons rather than anything scary outside of ourselves.

On the other hand, Samhain is the time when our dead relatives come back to visit us, we don't want to give them a bad impression, so it is traditional to set an extra place for them at the dinner table - and hope that they don't show up!

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