{"id":4777,"date":"2025-10-27T11:58:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trantrandance.com\/samhain-halloween-and-our-own-traditions-a-celebration-that-brings-worlds-together\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:05:29","slug":"samhain-halloween-and-our-own-traditions-a-celebration-that-brings-worlds-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trantrandance.com\/en\/samhain-halloween-and-our-own-traditions-a-celebration-that-brings-worlds-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Samhain, Halloween and our own traditions: a celebration that brings worlds together"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Always attracted by the Celtic culture and with Galician roots that bring us closer to this holiday, we have chosen Samhain to title this post for its ancestral character and for being the ritual that somehow connects us with current festivities such as the ubiquitous Halloween, which has its origin in it.<\/span><\/p>

Modern Halloween<\/strong> has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain<\/strong>, which marked the end of summer and the beginning of winter. It was believed that during that night, the world of the living and the world of the dead intertwined. <\/p>

To us, as Spaniards, All Saints’ Day sounds more familiar than Halloween, which is not part of our culture, even though we have to spend these days surrounded by cobwebs, pumpkins and various monsters. But it is always nice to learn about other customs<\/g>. Besides, it is in our DNA to take advantage of any possible reason for celebration, that’s just the way it is. <\/span><\/p>

You may be gathering with your loved ones around a bonfire somewhere in Europe or if you live in Mexico, you may be planning a picnic with your ancestors.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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But we are not interested in talking about what we all know, but to take a look beyond the commercial and discover other customs. If there is a common element in practically any festivity or ritual, it is dance<\/strong>. Curioseando in that line, we have seen that it is also present in some of these celebrations linked to the world of the dead. Here is a nice example, the Xantolo. That is the word used by the indigenous communities in the Huasteca region to name the festivities they dedicate to those who are no longer with them. On those days, the souls of the deceased return to the world of the living to live with their families. And one of the main elements of the celebration are the traditional dances. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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There are celebrations throughout the world where the sacred and the popular are intertwined in a similar way. This reminds us that no matter how far away we live, we always have more in common than it seems. In Cambodia for example, they celebrate the Pchum Ben Festival<\/em> where they also honor their ancestors for no less than 15 days. <\/p>

If you are more into trick-or-treating, there are events you should not miss: NYC Village Halloween Parade<\/em> in New York, the largest Halloween parade in the world, and in Ireland the P\u00faca Festival <\/a>or the Derry Halloween Festival<\/em>, one of the most emblematic celebrations of its Celtic origin.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Did you know that the word “Halloween” comes from the English expression “All Hallows’ Eve”, which means “All Hallows’ Eve”? We didn’t. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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But what we find most surprising is the amount of traditions that we still have to learn about without leaving our borders. Here we share with you a few of them: <\/p>

The tradition of the finaos: the Canarian Halloween<\/a><\/p>\n

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Festival of the \u00e1nimas (Soria)<\/a><\/p>\n

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And you, what are your plans? trick or treat? Will you eat saint’s bones, pan de muerto, or an Irish barmbrack? <\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Always attracted by the Celtic culture and with Galician roots that bring us closer to this holiday, we have chosen Samhain to title this post for its ancestral character and for being the ritual that somehow connects us with current festivities such as the ubiquitous Halloween, which has its origin in it. Modern Halloween has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trantrandance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trantrandance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trantrandance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trantrandance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trantrandance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trantrandance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4778,"href":"https:\/\/www.trantrandance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions\/4778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trantrandance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trantrandance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trantrandance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trantrandance.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}