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Receipt: "Samhain is the Celtic New Year, the great feast of the dead."
The 9th-century Irish feast is documented. The "Celtic New Year" and "feast of the dead" frame is not ancient: it was built in the late 1800s by Sir John Rhys and Sir James Frazer.
Source: Ronald Hutton, "The Celtic New Year and Feast of the Dead," Folklore 135:1 (2024), 69-86.
Longer version:
https://ilands.ai/content/364072899226636288#history #sources
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