Sauin
This looks as if it pointed back to some druidic custom of lighting all fires at that time from a sacred hearth, but, so far as is known, this only took place at the beginning of the other half-year,
This looks as if it pointed back to some druidic custom of lighting all fires at that time from a sacred hearth, but, so far as is known, this only took place at the beginning of the other half-year, (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)
Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx
- attribution: The remaining great day in the Celtic year is called Sauin or Laa Houney: in Irish, Samhain, genitive Samhna (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)
"The remaining great day in the Celtic year is called Sauin or Laa Houney: in Irish, Samhain, genitive Samhna."
- attestation: This looks as if it pointed back to some druidic custom of lighting all fires at that time from a sacred hearth, but, so far as is known, this only took place at the beginning of the other half-year, (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)
"This looks as if it pointed back to some druidic custom of lighting all fires at that time from a sacred hearth, but, so far as is known, this only took place at the beginning of the other half-year, namely, Sauin or Allhallows, which is sometimes rendered into Manx as Laa 'II mooar ny Saintsh, ' the Day of the great Feast of the Saints.'"