Wait... you mean the time Martin Martin and the like actually started visiting these remote regions and writing down their customs..? Funny that.

Man, wait til you find out about Odin’s horn, Apollo’s chariot, and all the other symbols that exist in art that didn’t actually belong to the thing they’re named after.

Things I never thought I would have to explain to an adult.

Yes. Samhain customs that people point to are far too young to have genuinely influenced the Christian celebration. There is little evidence that the "ancient" observances that were "always that way" are actually ancient. Primary historical documents do not support it.

The very first recorded instances of anything like the modern secular Halloween celebrations ("guising"/costumes, etc.) is in the late 1700s early 1800s. The first solid example in the west is a newspaper article from Canada in the 1910s.

>Additionally, I am no expert on early Christian traditions but was halloween part of early Christian traditions? Or did it come later?

Halloween is the vigil of All Saints Day – and with how old Christian holidays were celebrated the vigil was the first part of the feast.

Precisely. There's a lot of "well it was always this way" with folk who want to link Samhain to Halloween –– but it wasn't. The trappings of observances that folk are insisting are "ancient" simply aren't, and do not pre-date Christian celebrations and customs.

Britanica repeats a number of woozles about Halloween that – despite having a citation pedigree – do not have primary historical sources to support them.

I've long understood and haven't been convinced otherwise, that Halloween's origins are with the French celts.

The use of a possessive noun would suggest otherwise.

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And the original article say “the only one of its kind in Halland”.

That’s the phrase that was used though. If you go through to the original article they said

“This one is this far the only one of its kind in Halland”.

The secondary article made it sound worse by leaving of the other words.

So do you, Doctor Jones!

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There used to be a site that would de-slideshow a site, but the offending sites kept changing their format to prevent the readers from doing it.

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It's not. It says one of it's kind.

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>But mythological figures usually possess no physical artefacts, them being mythical and all...

Do... do you think this article is about archaeologists finding an amulet they say belonged to the god of thunder? Because it's just a symbol that humans made. It didn't literally belong to Thor.

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