Happy Halloween! In Galicia, Spain, 'Samhain' means fright night

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Alfonso Sanglao

 

Mysterious figures mixing potions; skull rituals; and tales of witches on October 31st?  All par for the course on Halloween night. But in Galicia, these creepy doings go back thousands of years, when back in the mists of time this northwestern corner of today’s Spain was dominated by Celtic tribes, who lived here even before some migrated to today’s British Isles as well as northern France.

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