Samhain — When the Year Turns Dark. The leaves are falling, the nights are drawing in, and the warmth of summer has slipped quietly away. Across the land, nature is preparing for winter. For our ancestors, this changing of the seasons meant far more than darker evenings. Samhain marked the ending of one part of the year and the beginning of another — a threshold between what had been and what was still to come. Over centuries, Samhain has become entwined with stories of spiri