print email comment close Halloween: The Fantasy and Folklore of All Hallows URL: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/halloween.html Description: An essay about the historical origins of Halloween in the Samhain holiday, "the biggest and most significant holiday of the Celtic year." Also includes a brief bibliography. From the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. Author: Santino, Jack Publisher: American Folklife Center Extra Keywords All Saints Day Library of Congress Subject Headings: Calendar, Celtic Halloween Holidays Samhain LII Database Information: Record 4631 created by Maria Brandt on 09/21/2004 Last modification on 09/28/2009 Published: 09/21/2004   Republished: 10/01/2009 Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/4631