Samhainとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Irish Samhain.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsaʊ.wən/, /ˈsaʊ.wɪn/
• IPA: (proscribed spelling pronunciation) /ˈsæm.heɪn/

固有名詞

Samhain

1. A holiday, falling on the night of 31 October to 1 November, celebrated by the ancient Celts and by modern neo-pagans as the beginning of winter and the new year, and a time during which the spirits of the dead could return to the earth.
   • 1994, Edain McCoy, “Appendix Three: Outline for Ritual Construction”, in A Witch’s Guide to Faery Folk: How to Work with the Elemental World: […], St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn Publishers, published 2004 (13th printing), →ISBN, page 354:

     Invite, but never command, friendly spirits, faeries, or elementals to join you as you wish. In some traditions it is common to invite ancestors to join you, especially during the dark days from Samhain to Imbolg when it is believed that the portal between our dimensions is at its thinnest.

同意語

• Halloween
• November Eve

参考

• (Wiccan Sabbats) Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Midsummer, Lughnasadh, Mabon

アナグラム

• anhimas