Halloween: The Bloody and Eerie Origin Of This Sugar Overload Holiday

Mike McCarthy, a Rathcroghan tour guide and researcher said, “Samhain was when the invisible wall between the living world and the otherworld disappeared. A whole host of fearsome otherworldly beasts emerged to ravage the surrounding landscape and make it ready for winter.”

Celts protected themselves from this by lighting ritual fires on hilltops and in fields. In order to avoid being dragged to murky, subterranean dimension, also known as Tír na nÓg (Teer-na-nohg), they disguised themselves as fellow ghouls