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Samhain is believed to have Celtic pagan origins and some Neolithic passage tombs in Ireland are aligned with the sunrise at the time of Samhain. Throughout Ireland and Britain, especially in the Celtic-speaking regions, the household festivities included divination rituals and games intended to foretell one's future, especially regarding death and marriage. Apples and nuts were often used, and customs included apple bobbing, nut roasting, scrying or mirror-gazing, pouring molten lead or egg whites into water, dream interpretation, and others.

In some places, torches lit from the bonfire were carried sunwise around homes and fields to protect them. It is suggested the fires were a kind of imitative or sympathetic magic – they mimicked the Sun and held back the decay and darkness of winter.

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-'''[[W.B. Yeats|William Butler Yeats]]''' was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer, and politician.
+'''[[Halloween|Samhain]]''' is believed to have Celtic [[paganism|pagan]] origins and some Neolithic passage tombs in Ireland are aligned with the sunrise at the time of Samhain. Throughout Ireland and Britain, especially in the Celtic-speaking regions, the household festivities included [[divination]] rituals and games intended to foretell one's future, especially regarding death and marriage. Apples and nuts were often used, and customs included apple bobbing, nut roasting, [[scrying]] or mirror-gazing, pouring molten lead or egg whites into water, dream interpretation, and others.
-Yeats had a lifelong interest in mysticism, spiritualism, [[occult]]ism and [[astrology]]. He read extensively on the subjects throughout his life, became a member of the paranormal research organisation "The Ghost Club" in 1911. His mystical interests, inspired by a study of [[Hinduism]], formed much of the basis of his late poetry. During séances held from 1912, a spirit calling itself "Leo Africanus" apparently claimed it was Yeats's [[demon|Daemon]] or anti-self.
+In some places, torches lit from the bonfire were carried sunwise around homes and fields to protect them. It is suggested the fires were a kind of imitative or sympathetic [[ritual magic|magic]] – they mimicked the [[Sun]] and held back the decay and darkness of winter.
-During 1885, Yeats was involved in the formation of the Dublin Hermetic Order. That year the Dublin Theosophical lodge was opened in conjunction with Brahmin Mohini Chatterjee, who travelled from the Theosophical Society in London to lecture. Yeats attended his first séance the following year. He later became heavily involved with the Theosophy and with hermeticism, particularly with the eclectic [[Rosicrucian|Rosicrucianism]] of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]].
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