Samhain

• Halloween in Edinburgh

  Edinburgh & the Lothians × Plan Your Trip

  

  Halloween is not an American import in Scotland’s capital. It grew from the Gaelic festival of Samhain, and every 31 October Edinburgh still marks it with fire, drums and the Cailleach.

• Samhain: How to Pronounce It and What It Meant

  Scotland × Plan Your Trip

  

  SOW-in or Sa-wayne? A guide to saying Samhain in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, what the word meant, and how Scotland kept the night, from guising to Edinburgh’s Samhuinn fire festival.