Talk: The History of Halloween with Ronald Hutton
"Did you know that the Anglo-Saxon word for Halloween was Blodmonath ('blood month')? Or that medieval Welsh people would dress as a tailless black sow to mock the spirit of the coming winter; the season of death? Neither did we, until we learnt it from Ronald Hutton. The pre-eminent expert in the dark side of early modern UK history, Dr Hutton hosts this spine-tingling talk on the origins and mysteries of Samhain."
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An event on Tomorrow. The event starts at 19:00.
Halloween is usually regarded as the creepiest festival of the modern year. A celebration of witchcraft, phantoms and images of fear coming down to us from a remote and murky pagan past.
But how old and how pagan is Halloween really? Was it the ancient pagan feast of the dead, or the Celtic New Year? What role does it play in the modern world, and should it still be celebrated?
Join us for a delightfully spooky evening as Professor Ronald Hutton answers all this and more about the much-loved and much-misunderstood festival.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions