Oct 31, 2023
Oidhche Shamhna sona dhuibh uile!
May the new year bring you peace, happiness, abundance, and fulfillment! :)
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Oidhche Shamhna sona dhuibh uile!
May the new year bring you peace, happiness, abundance, and fulfillment! :)
Cád é an tradisuinta Oíche Shamhna is fearr leat?? 🎃🦇🕸
Ancestors
by Zephyros Craven
Where are you in me? All of you who came before neither left nor stayed.
I picture you out of this frame and glass, venerable di parentes of my mantleplace shrine.
Do you cling to me, as your broach pins my sweater?
The silver smells of you.
Secrets spilled into the waters you traveled, or tucked away in your naval suit.
Confess to me if you erased names from fields or family trees.
I see you standing behind me in the crisp morning.
I hear you at the table over salted potatoes on November-Eve.
Your stories ripen to my parents’ mouths with age; but of all that is false, or true,
how much is you?
These three are clearly up to no good tonight - and neither should you… Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh!
Galway, October 2021
✨ 🎃 Oíche Shamhna Shona Daoibh 🎃 ✨
Some halloween positivity from yours truly
Just one little thing that's been bothering me over the last few days. It's a very nitpicky thing, I'll admit.
Samhain is on the 1st November not the 31st October. The 31st October is called Oíche Shamhna. This means the Eve of Samhain (Samhain changes to Shamhna for grammar reasons).
In modern Irish, Halloween is translated as Oíche Shamhna, while the name of the month of November is Samhain because it happens in November and we name several months after the festivals that happen/happened in them (Bealtaine = May, Lúnasa/Lughnasadh = August, Samhain =November, Mí na Nollag = December, lit. month of Christmas).
Oíche Shamhna -> ee-hya-how-na
Samhain -> sow-in
(best I could do for pronunciations. They're not English words so the sounds just won't be right no matter what I write)
Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh! Here's some of Fadó's most Halloween-worthy creatures. Trick and treat your way through Fadó today! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1148200/Fad_Chapter_One/