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Well, hi, and welcome to who did what now, the Betty Sood.

That's right, that's where we take bite-sized pieces of history and shove it down your throat.

I feel like I could have worded that better, but it's okay with me.

Your, um, surprisingly non- eloquent host, Kerry Charlwood.

Fearfest fan and reader of books. So, seeing as we are in this spooky season, I thought I'd use each one of the bettysodes to talk about

Halloween, the history of Halloween, its origins, like where our traditions and customs come from.

And I thought I'd start with the OG Halloween sound. That's right, we're talking about everybody's favorite pagans, the Celts.

So basically, way back when, there were four main Celtic festivals.

And Halloween dates back to the ancient Celtic festival of Sown.

And this is like, we're going ancient origins here.

The Celts you'll also find sometimes referred to as

you know the gaelic people so the keltz they lived in you know ireland scotland the isle of man

northern france probably a bit of wales a bit of cornwall sort of all around all those fun areas so yeah

it was one of the four main festivals.

And so you had Sowan, Imbol, Baltena, and Lunasa.

So Sown was this Celtic festival.

As far as the Celts were concerned,

the year was split into the light half and the dark half.

So it's basically the end of harvest season and it's the beginning of,

you know, the dark, cold winter. And it's also like halfway between like the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. It's actually kind of funny because Beltona and Sowan, they have very,

very similar traditions and customs rituals

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