Horny History: DO NOT SHARE FIRE WITH YOUR NEIGHBOR

It’s real history, as told by some horny dude in my inbox and me.

Happy Samhain/ All Hallow’s Eve

Today’s conspiracy theorists are boring. What if instead of their nonsense, they were really into old forgotten folklore and repeated that as if it were true?

Samhain is an ancient Celtic holiday celebrated on November 1st. Samhain and Halloween share some traditions, and for good reason. Samhain began as a holiday marking the beginning of winter. There were feasts, meetings and festivities. It was a time when it was believed that non-dead spirits roamed about, causing harm to livestock. When Christianity infiltrated the area, the celebrations of All Saints Day and All Souls Day, came with them. As the holidays merged together, and since the Christian holidays were celebrating the dead, Samhain too took on references to the dead. All Saints Day, celebrated November 1st, was also called All Hallows, and so All Hallows Eve was October 31st. Halloween! Halloween isn’t Samhain though. What we celebrate now is a mixture of traditions, some old, but many new.

The traditions I’m about to talk about aren’t very important. This is almost exclusively a fun post, besides the end. This folklore might not even have been a part of traditional, pre-Christian Samhain. There isn’t enough written about the holiday to be sure. It very well could just be Christians who wanted to portray pre-Christians as unintelligent and violent.

(As a reminder I do not know these men. They are messaging a satirical Facebook profile of me as a conservative.)

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Mike’s probably just off checking his hearth, I’m sure he will be back.

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The stories of people actually hurting each other over theft of fire come from after Christianity influenced the area. There’s not much written on prior, so it’s tough to say whether people actually did any of that in traditional Samhain celebrations. There’s really no way of knowing if these stories were just made up to mock people who weren’t Christian and portray them as brute and unintelligent. You should more or less take this story as a fun look into folklore, besides the dislike of religious leaders. That I’m serious about.

For fun I made a post warning everyone on my bait profile of the dangers of sharing fire. A few actually shared it.

Remember, this is just superstition made up to benefit the religious elite. If a child comes to your door tonight, it’s okay to give them a burning peat, a little kindling from your hearth, or to light their pipe for them.

Sources:

Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions W. H. Davenport Adams 1882

The Golden Bough James Frazer 1890

Stations of the Sun Robert Hutton