How Is Halloween Celebrated In Scotland?

[Bugbear]

No one has mentioned that the original name for the holiday was Samhain, various spellings, pronounced sew-ron. So I have!

And it seems this is another major contribution the Scots-Irish made to North American culture that they get no credit for, I mean in the modern mind. Explains why Halloween always seemed to be much more of a Protestant thing (in my childhood) than a Catholic one.

Interesting, I did not grow up thinking of Halloween as an original North American tradition; it was always linked to Europe; grew up in the Southwest. Looking at some of the other discussions, it appears to be very intertwined between different cultures over time.

* It was posted that people of the UK are blaming Halloween on the North Americans in an earlier post.