I think it is fantastic that you have such great awareness of the original Irish origins of Samhain. This keeps old traditions alive from generation to generation. This is especially important for Ireland where the origins of post flood civilization emerge and the very vast majority of people are unaware of this. The Irish hold the deepest mysteries of humanity and the old traditions are a means of connection with this ancient ancestry. Good for you to honour the Samhain tradition by practicing it.
My grandmother's recipe. She was born in 1895 in Dublin. Bairín breac / Barmbrack 1 mug black tea 3 cups mixed dried fruit (I prefer raisins and mixed peel) Grated rind and juice of 1 large orange 3 mugs of self raising flour 1 egg (use 1 tablespoonful of oil if you don't eat eggs) 3/4 mug brown sugar Pinch of salt Soak fruit and sugar overnight in tea Grate the orange and extract the juice Add other ingredients to the fruit mixture The mixture should be fairly wet and "plop" from your wooden spoon if it is too wet add more flour or too dry add more orange juice Transfer to an 8" tin / 20cm lined with grease proof paper and bake for 1.5 hours in the middle of a preheated oven 180c or gas mark 4. Cover the tin with grease proof paper to prevent the top of the breac getting overdone. Allow to cool and serve sliced and buttered with real Irish butter. This breac will become a family favourite throughout the year and is great as a lunchbox filler. At Halloween add the following wrapped in grease proof paper before baking. (I only ever add the money and the ring). A ring (the finder will marry) A coin (the finder will prosper) A rag (the finder will be poor) A stick (the finder will have an unhappy marriage) A cross (the finder will enter religious life) A thimble (the finder will not marry) A button (the finder will be a bachelor)
My Mom makes bread pudding the same way but she uses stale bread with the same fruit and black tea. My Irish grandparents used to make it too, we had the coin and the ring in it but not fabric or peas.
We used turnips and large swedes when we were kids, my neighbours used to grow them for us and their kids to light. Thankfully my friend's Dad used to carve them out fo us and still to this day I renember the scent of candle lit Turnips and Swedes
I have to sneak to do my bonfires at the beach..sometimes in the middle of the night. Its strange the way contemporary "humans" detest being human. I take comfort in knowing my grandparents are pleased, watching over me, as I keep tradition.
It was always huge, Dubliner here, dressing up with scary masks & going door to door "Help the Halloween Party" shaking our bags people put sweets money in, sometimes people requested a song for treats.Turnips where hulled out & scary faces carved & candles in.We had bonfires till they where banned 70s.
some kids do sing and say poems but more silly i had one kids sing trick or treat smell my feet give me something good to eat . i was laughing i gave him dobble treats so cute
Hi I just saw your amazing weight loss video. Do you mind doing an update video on how to maintain the weight loss, and did losing weight cause loose skin and what to do about it....I read that fasting as a weight loss program completely gets rid of the excess skin. Just wondering if fasting is necessary to get rid of the excess skin. Congratulations on the weight loss. ♥️ Very encouraging. 🎃
Halloween was also originally the New Years celebration. Also, said to be the male deity (sun) dying to be born again by the female deity (moon) in the spring.
Wait omg Denver!?! That’s me! I’d love to buy you (all) dinner or something but I’d get meeting a internet rando is prolly strange/scary too. I hope my city is lovely for you!
Historically bonfires are not a Samhain tradition in Ireland at all. The extensive Victorian folklore collections make no mention of them. But they were a Halloween tradition in parts of Scotland (either side of the Highland Line), parts of Wales, and the Isle of Man. They were not found in Cornwall or Cumbria - the two 'Celtic' areas of England. But in more recent years they have been found in two areas in Ireland - the Protestant North (in areas heavily settled by Scots) and in Dublin (but only from the mid-20th century). So, it would appear there was no pan-Celtic fire festival at Samhain.
I feel like in the US the history has been lost a bit. My best friend is British and she was never allowed to celebrate Halloween because it was believed to be wicked. But here, it’s just all about dressing up and getting candy. 😜
This is because trick or treating develops with Irish descendants in North America. There are more descendants of the Irish in NA than there are Ireland, so I can see how it wouldnt be that big in Ireland. St Patrick’s day is bigger here too
your video is asowam.But let me know some answers---- According to Irish and welsh / Brythoniaid ( Brythons Or Britons) religions & their holy scriptures--- 1.after death ,does soul can feel any non - physical thing for eternal time after libration from birth & death cycle or when it didn't get libration from that cycle or even any situation or anywhere or anyhow? 2. Does the soul have any memory of this world ( like memory of family, friends etc) for eternal time after libration from birth & death cycle or when it didn't get libration from that cycle or even any how? 3.does the soul stays individual for eternal time after libration from birth & death cycle or when it didn't get libration from that cycle or even any how? Please reply🙏
While there is no reason why the two should be connected, you will normally see an increase in paranormal (ghostly) studies around the time of Halloween. It maybe that people are more in the mood for this type of activity around this time of year. Thank you for all of the information, it makes it that much more interesting.
It’s still known as The Potato Famine. She’s correct in calling it that. That’s what we learn in school. It was a distinct horror in Irish history, and its name evokes that horror. “Genocide” Is a term used for many horrors around the world. “The Potato Famine” is sufficiently descriptive of the particular horrors our ancestors experienced.
In 1886, said that irish kids were scaring American family in the first era that irish kids were house to house asking for candy by saying Trick or Treat! But those days America didn't get any idea what Trick or Treat means which shouted by Irish immigrant kids on their doors.. the history made family scared on how were the 1886 kids scaring American homes if they're not giving them any candy 😁
Very interesting!! Didn't know that fireworks were illegal in Ireland... I have to say that's really clever ans respectful 'cause they're harmful to birds and animals, in general...
Mostly because the British took food and money from Irish people during that famine, so we basically came to their rescue by sending them money and food, even helping them migrate to America, and they shared their culture with us including Samhain, which is how Halloween became such a huge commodity here in the US.
The American tradition of trick or treat came from eire & the UK, but lost faver over the years, but because of the American movies etc it has come back to Europe. The traditions hail from Ireland 🇮🇪
They are illegal in my state (Maryland) but they are legal in the next state(Pennsylvania) and that's what my husband(drogheda) says every year...FIREWORKS!
I HATE KNOW HALLOWEEN WAS MY FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR THIS SATANIC DAY TURN TURN TO JESUS TODAY AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST HIS SON CLEANSETH US FROM ALL SIN 1 JOHN 1-7
Bleedin ejits! blowing their hands off 🤣. I remember being in America for the first time and a kid asked me how was Disneyland or whatever I was at that day and I of course replied " It was bleedin deadly", and the shock in his face, Him " Did someone die", me equally confused. "No! It was great". Him, "Is it dangerous?" That was the day I realised all Americans are stupid Hahahaha, jokes, we are all a bit different depending on our lives lived. Even I noticed how weird it was when I explained, bleeding Deadly ment it was Great.
Let’s delve into the world of historical fact… Completely contrary to what many would have one believe, Halloween is _not_ a holiday that has close ties to the ancient past, nor does it have some ‘pagan’ antecedent, nor is it a continuation of several ancient customs. It is a relatively new phenomenon, originating from right here in the USA from about the 1920’s or so, and represents a mix of cultures, capitalism, and accommodation. Many people tend to associate modern Halloween with three things: The old Celtic celebration of Samhain (asserting that most of Halloween’s customs originate with ancient Samhain celebrations); Satanism (asserting that Halloween’s origins are Satanic, as evidenced by the many Satanists who use this day to promote their beliefs); and All Saints Day (asserting that the early church established the holiday to “Christianize” Samhain). Perhaps the most difficult aspect of researching these various origins, traditions, and assumed ‘truths’ about Halloween, is sifting through all the data and separating what is historical _fact_ from the myth, legend, and religious paranoia of what is historical _fiction._ It’s not an easy task. Indeed, what makes this task even more difficult, is that so many of these ill- researched ‘’facts’, suppositions, and assumptions have been repeated for so long, they have essentially become accepted as truth. One can find these asserted ‘facts’ in everything ranging from various educational websites, to entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias, and even in (some) scholarly articles. What we find after close examination and scrutiny, however, is that the accepted origin of most Halloween traditions/beliefs comes from the latter (historical fiction), rather than the former (historical fact). Contrary to what many believe, or were taught, all three holidays; Halloween, All Saint’s Day, and Samhain, developed _completely independent_ of each other. They *do* however, all share a common date and perhaps a “feeling”….but that’s really about it. Indeed, so much of Halloween “feels” Pagan that attempts to connect those things to ancient Samhain simply “feels right”. The truth is, to say Halloween’s connections to ancient Samhain are, at best, extremely tenuous, would be grossly overstating the facts. Halloween just does not have the “pagan precedent” so many people seem to desperately want it to. It might also be mentioned that until the middle of the 20th century, anthropologists typically assumed that any festival, however new it actually was and no matter where it came from, had ancient pagan roots, even if the people celebrating it gave a different story and were therefore thought to be ignorant of its origins. There was a romantization of rural cultures such that it was thought the rural folk were holders of ancient wisdom, but simultaneously ignorant that they held wisdom or that it was ancient, so they needed academics to explain it to them, based on theories that have long been discredited. The carving of root vegetables does not date back to Samhain - the traditional is not historically attested any earlier than the 1700’s.
@@dnorm2600 I probably should have added to the above - Another cultural tradition bears mentioning here as well. There seems to be a relatively new ‘tradition’, if you will, of associating Halloween with the Central American ‘Dia de los Muertos” - “The Day of the Dead”. The assertion here is that people are “worshiping the dead”, or something along those lines. This is yet another cultural celebration that has absolutely no connection to Halloween but shares a common “theme” or “feeling” (the date, of course, is a result of the introduction of Christianity as the traditions of Dia de los Muertos closely resemble All Saints’ Day).
Thank you for sharing this! 😊 It’s very helpful to us in America who are disconnected from our Gaelic Culture!
I think it is fantastic that you have such great awareness of the original Irish origins of Samhain. This keeps old traditions alive from generation to generation. This is especially important for Ireland where the origins of post flood civilization emerge and the very vast majority of people are unaware of this. The Irish hold the deepest mysteries of humanity and the old traditions are a means of connection with this ancient ancestry. Good for you to honour the Samhain tradition by practicing it.
I love Irish traditions! There is always a shroud of mystery and legend around...Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! Great info.
My grandmother's recipe. She was born in 1895 in Dublin.
Bairín breac / Barmbrack
1 mug black tea
3 cups mixed dried fruit (I prefer raisins and mixed peel)
Grated rind and juice of 1 large orange
3 mugs of self raising flour
1 egg (use 1 tablespoonful of oil if you don't eat eggs)
3/4 mug brown sugar
Pinch of salt
Soak fruit and sugar overnight in tea
Grate the orange and extract the juice
Add other ingredients to the fruit mixture
The mixture should be fairly wet and "plop" from your wooden spoon
if it is too wet add more flour or too dry add more orange juice
Transfer to an 8" tin / 20cm lined with grease proof paper and bake for 1.5 hours in the middle of a preheated oven 180c or gas mark 4.
Cover the tin with grease proof paper to prevent the top of the breac getting overdone.
Allow to cool and serve sliced and buttered with real Irish butter.
This breac will become a family favourite throughout the year and is great as a lunchbox filler.
At Halloween add the following wrapped in grease proof paper before baking. (I only ever add the money and the ring).
A ring (the finder will marry)
A coin (the finder will prosper)
A rag (the finder will be poor)
A stick (the finder will have an unhappy marriage)
A cross (the finder will enter religious life)
A thimble (the finder will not marry)
A button (the finder will be a bachelor)
My Mom makes bread pudding the same way but she uses stale bread with the same fruit and black tea. My Irish grandparents used to make it too, we had the coin and the ring in it but not fabric or peas.
I love Bairín breac
Great video! I learned so many things about Halloween and the connection to Ireland I wasn’t aware of. Thank you!
This was really fun & easy to understand ! Thanks for explaining :)
Great video! Great summary and fond memories of Halloween 🎃 as a child in Dublin. Thank you
😊Thanks for watching!
We used turnips and large swedes when we were kids, my neighbours used to grow them for us and their kids to light. Thankfully my friend's Dad used to carve them out fo us and still to this day I renember the scent of candle lit Turnips and Swedes
We used to call it the pookie.
So many interesting stories! Thank you so much for sharing all of them.
I love your videos ! Thanks
I loved this video!! So much stuff I never knew
Thanks so much! 💗💗💗
Really enjoy your videos.
Happy St Patrick's Day 2023. Hope you are well 🎶🎵🤗⚘🍀🌞🎶🎵⚘🌱
It makes a lot of sense but hears from these for different festive occasions.
Hey like this video about history of Halloween in Wolfe your the best vlog
Thank you! 💗💗💗
I have to sneak to do my bonfires at the beach..sometimes in the middle of the night. Its strange the way contemporary "humans" detest being human. I take comfort in knowing my grandparents are pleased, watching over me, as I keep tradition.
Thank you for sharing ! This is amazing 👏👏
Thanks for this video. I am a huge Ireland fan. I would love to see a video on Christmas and Bew Year's Eve traditions
It was always huge, Dubliner here, dressing up with scary masks & going door to door "Help the Halloween Party" shaking our bags people put sweets money in, sometimes people requested a song for treats.Turnips where hulled out & scary faces carved & candles in.We had bonfires till they where banned 70s.
Oh enjoy your time in Denver. 😊 great video
My relatives in Newfoundland still do mummering !
Your top matches your nails, love it.
Thanks! Black for Halloween 🖤
I love
You guys let school out for Halloween? Damn it i wish we had that here lol
some kids do sing and say poems but more silly i had one kids sing trick or treat smell my feet give me something good to eat . i was laughing i gave him dobble treats so cute
Hi I just saw your amazing weight loss video.
Do you mind doing an update video on how to maintain the weight loss, and did losing weight cause loose skin and what to do about it....I read that fasting as a weight loss program completely gets rid of the excess skin. Just wondering if fasting is necessary to get rid of the excess skin. Congratulations on the weight loss. ♥️ Very encouraging. 🎃
In Vermont, we tons of bonfires often. In town & in the country.
Bonfires are my favourite! You're so lucky to have tons 🔥💗
@@WolfeMomma 💗
Halloween was also originally the New Years celebration. Also, said to be the male deity (sun) dying to be born again by the female deity (moon) in the spring.
Maybe those are more British though
Wait omg Denver!?! That’s me! I’d love to buy you (all) dinner or something but I’d get meeting a internet rando is prolly strange/scary too. I hope my city is lovely for you!
Heya, hope all is good ...your videos are just love but why don't you making video since 5 months?
We don’t have a big Halloween celebration with fireworks here. It’s just parties snd trick or treat in the USA
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I miss your videos :c
Historically bonfires are not a Samhain tradition in Ireland at all.
The extensive Victorian folklore collections make no mention of them.
But they were a Halloween tradition in parts of Scotland (either side of the Highland Line), parts of Wales, and the Isle of Man.
They were not found in Cornwall or Cumbria - the two 'Celtic' areas of England.
But in more recent years they have been found in two areas in Ireland - the Protestant North (in areas heavily settled by Scots) and in Dublin (but only from the mid-20th century).
So, it would appear there was no pan-Celtic fire festival at Samhain.
I feel like in the US the history has been lost a bit. My best friend is British and she was never allowed to celebrate Halloween because it was believed to be wicked. But here, it’s just all about dressing up and getting candy. 😜
This is because trick or treating develops with Irish descendants in North America. There are more descendants of the Irish in NA than there are Ireland, so I can see how it wouldnt be that big in Ireland. St Patrick’s day is bigger here too
your video is asowam.But let me know some answers----
According to Irish and welsh / Brythoniaid ( Brythons Or Britons) religions & their holy scriptures---
1.after death ,does soul can feel any non - physical thing for eternal time after libration from birth & death cycle or when it didn't get libration from that cycle or even any situation or anywhere or anyhow?
2. Does the soul have any memory of this world ( like memory of family, friends etc) for eternal time after libration from birth & death cycle or when it didn't get libration from that cycle or even any how?
3.does the soul stays individual for eternal time after libration from birth & death cycle or when it didn't get libration from that cycle or even any how?
Please reply🙏
While there is no reason why the two should be connected, you will normally see an increase in paranormal (ghostly) studies around the time of Halloween. It maybe that people are more in the mood for this type of activity around this time of year.
Thank you for all of the information, it makes it that much more interesting.
Barnbrack is really yummy
... sincerely, thank you
Yay
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Fab video, apart from calling the Genocide a Potato Famine. I you are being culturally correct, please be aware of this!
Thank you! I'm so torn on calling it a genocide because shockingly it technically isn't classed as one.
It’s still known as The Potato Famine. She’s correct in calling it that. That’s what we learn in school. It was a distinct horror in Irish history, and its name evokes that horror. “Genocide” Is a term used for many horrors around the world. “The Potato Famine” is sufficiently descriptive of the particular horrors our ancestors experienced.
In 1886, said that irish kids were scaring American family in the first era that irish kids were house to house asking for candy by saying Trick or Treat! But those days America didn't get any idea what Trick or Treat means which shouted by Irish immigrant kids on their doors.. the history made family scared on how were the 1886 kids scaring American homes if they're not giving them any candy 😁
Very interesting!! Didn't know that fireworks were illegal in Ireland... I have to say that's really clever ans respectful 'cause they're harmful to birds and animals, in general...
Físeán iontach bean álainn👍😍👍😍💓😍💓😍
beannachtaí ó Mheicsiceo🇲🇽❤️🇮🇪👏🌹👏🌹👏
💗💗💗
I like Saint Patrick's day
What was the potato famine?
I always wondered why our Irish ancestors came to America.
Mostly because the British took food and money from Irish people during that famine, so we basically came to their rescue by sending them money and food, even helping them migrate to America, and they shared their culture with us including Samhain, which is how Halloween became such a huge commodity here in the US.
My grandmother would make a salt line. She was very superstitious.
Good morning
Loved this! Please do a video about Denver. Always think America do Halloween well and is why it has leaked to the UK and possibly other countries
The American tradition of trick or treat came from eire & the UK, but lost faver over the years, but because of the American movies etc it has come back to Europe. The traditions hail from Ireland 🇮🇪
Bonfires are still a big deal and yes we sneak 🔥
@@deepakmeena3706 I’m 60 sweetie that is a ten year old pix
@@deepakmeena3706 I don’t care 🤷♀️ I’m getting old and that’s ok
Samhain is Irish for November 😊
They are illegal in my state (Maryland) but they are legal in the next state(Pennsylvania) and that's what my husband(drogheda) says every year...FIREWORKS!
Bangers are a pain in the neck for the doggies
If the doggies are particularly unfortunate bangers can be a pain in the arse.
Toast the barnbrack way better
I HATE KNOW HALLOWEEN WAS MY FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR THIS SATANIC DAY TURN TURN TO JESUS TODAY AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST HIS SON CLEANSETH US FROM ALL SIN 1 JOHN 1-7
Bleedin ejits! blowing their hands off 🤣. I remember being in America for the first time and a kid asked me how was Disneyland or whatever I was at that day and I of course replied " It was bleedin deadly", and the shock in his face, Him " Did someone die", me equally confused. "No! It was great". Him, "Is it dangerous?" That was the day I realised all Americans are stupid Hahahaha, jokes, we are all a bit different depending on our lives lived. Even I noticed how weird it was when I explained, bleeding Deadly ment it was Great.
You barely have a hint of an Irish accent. Were you raised in North America?
Poor devil just trying to his job and lieing christian jack always backstabbing
Let’s delve into the world of historical fact…
Completely contrary to what many would have one believe, Halloween is _not_ a holiday that has close ties to the ancient past, nor does it have some ‘pagan’ antecedent, nor is it a continuation of several ancient customs.
It is a relatively new phenomenon, originating from right here in the USA from about the 1920’s or so, and represents a mix of cultures, capitalism, and accommodation.
Many people tend to associate modern Halloween with three things: The old Celtic celebration of Samhain (asserting that most of Halloween’s customs originate with ancient Samhain celebrations); Satanism (asserting that Halloween’s origins are Satanic, as evidenced by the many Satanists who use this day to promote their beliefs); and All Saints Day (asserting that the early church established the holiday to “Christianize” Samhain).
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of researching these various origins, traditions, and assumed ‘truths’ about Halloween, is sifting through all the data and separating what is historical _fact_ from the myth, legend, and religious paranoia of what is historical _fiction._
It’s not an easy task. Indeed, what makes this task even more difficult, is that so many of these ill- researched ‘’facts’, suppositions, and assumptions have been repeated for so long, they have essentially become accepted as truth. One can find these asserted ‘facts’ in everything ranging from various educational websites, to entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias, and even in (some) scholarly articles.
What we find after close examination and scrutiny, however, is that the accepted origin of most Halloween traditions/beliefs comes from the latter (historical fiction), rather than the former (historical fact).
Contrary to what many believe, or were taught, all three holidays; Halloween, All Saint’s Day, and Samhain, developed _completely independent_ of each other. They *do* however, all share a common date and perhaps a “feeling”….but that’s really about it. Indeed, so much of Halloween “feels” Pagan that attempts to connect those things to ancient Samhain simply “feels right”.
The truth is, to say Halloween’s connections to ancient Samhain are, at best, extremely tenuous, would be grossly overstating the facts.
Halloween just does not have the “pagan precedent” so many people seem to desperately want it to.
It might also be mentioned that until the middle of the 20th century, anthropologists typically assumed that any festival, however new it actually was and no matter where it came from, had ancient pagan roots, even if the people celebrating it gave a different story and were therefore thought to be ignorant of its origins. There was a romantization of rural cultures such that it was thought the rural folk were holders of ancient wisdom, but simultaneously ignorant that they held wisdom or that it was ancient, so they needed academics to explain it to them, based on theories that have long been discredited.
The carving of root vegetables does not date back to Samhain - the traditional is not historically attested any earlier than the 1700’s.
LOL
Then there's the day of the dead in Southern Mexico.
@@dnorm2600
I probably should have added to the above -
Another cultural tradition bears mentioning here as well. There seems to be a relatively new ‘tradition’, if you will, of associating Halloween with the Central American ‘Dia de los Muertos” - “The Day of the Dead”. The assertion here is that people are “worshiping the dead”, or something along those lines. This is yet another cultural celebration that has absolutely no connection to Halloween but shares a common “theme” or “feeling” (the date, of course, is a result of the introduction of Christianity as the traditions of Dia de los Muertos closely resemble All Saints’ Day).