Halloween Costume
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Halloween was seen as being the time when the concession between the group of the living and the otherworld was blurred |
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| Innumerable of the traditional customs derive from archaic divination practices and ways of trying to predict the future |
| By the 18th century, most of the customs were methods for young people to search for their coming husbands or wives |
| As Samhainn was originally a harvest festival, legion of these eccentric practices are connected with chuck or the harvest and fertility |
| Different impaired custom associated with the Western Isles was to put two large nuts in the hearth of a peat fire |
| These were supposed to represent yourself and your intended spouse. |
If the nuts curled together when they warmed up then this was deemed to be a commendable omen, but if they jumped apart then it was chronology to look for another sweetheart. Seonadh in Scottish Gaelic means, sorcery, augury, or Druidism, and it is possible that the custom of Shonaidh is the direct link to an ancient mode of Celtic god worship that has been Christianised. As "Seonaidh", which is Gaelic "Johnny", it may also be a reference to separate of St John, and an invocation of him.