As an Irish person I MUST correct you. Samhain is pronounced like "sow-an" not "so-wane".
@Mothman156
7 жыл бұрын
I caught that too because I was in an Irish Mythology course a year or two ago, but he was closer than most people get with the pronunciation.
@luciobrazil007
6 жыл бұрын
at least he didnt say sam-hayne
6 жыл бұрын
Antoine has already been chastised for his pronunciation, but it is indeed lacking! Thanks for your comment!
@davenathan2002
5 жыл бұрын
Depending on where you are, in Ireland, it could also be "sow-enn".
@BeylasBees
4 жыл бұрын
Its redic lol
@Angel-nu7fm
6 жыл бұрын
Would have been nice if he talked slower. It was hard to understand.
@luza.barona1535
6 жыл бұрын
Angel 1 you can go into your settings, here on KZitem, go to playback and change the speed to slow it down. I did it made an incredible difference!
@Angel-nu7fm
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I put it on .75 and it was much easier to understand!
@mcfcfan1870
4 жыл бұрын
0:5 speed
@ostrichking6
7 жыл бұрын
This video is *incredibly* well edited and presented. It's genuinely bothersome how few views this has.
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind comment. It is a little bit frustrating indeed! But we're a french channel so we knew it would have a hard time finding its english-speaking audience, but who knows? It might make a comeback come next Halloween.
@ostrichking6
7 жыл бұрын
Well, would it be to hard to do english and french versions, like you did with this video? It'd certainly up your view count.
7 жыл бұрын
It depends on the video. Our fourth would be the simplest as there is no live footage of us speaking, like in this one. But for this Halloween episode we aimed specifically for a translated version to come out simultaneously, so I kept the Adobe Premiere file and edited it right afterwards, translating titles and whatnot (although you can see a few french titles that have passed through our scrutiny). For practically all our other videos I deleted the files and often the original footage and recordings to save space on the computer I use for editing (which is not really built up for that). So most of it would result in some bizarre documentary-voiceover but it would be possible! The simplest would be english subtitles but they're also time-consuming. We certainly hope to do more english videos in the future although we've met a cold welcome with this one, and we should probably aim to make shorter ones. - Lays.
@DavidMichaelCommer
3 жыл бұрын
@ Je l’aime, but I wonder if you might be able to slow down the video’s audio track just a little bit? The narrator speaks so rapidly that the video is a little difficult to understand at times, and it’s hard to take in the information when it is presented so rapidly. I want to watch the whole video, but I am not certain whether I will be able to tolerate the speedy narration for 45 minutes.
@davenathan2002
5 жыл бұрын
That was wonderful. Thanks for interesting dive into Celtic folklore and history. Incidentally, when I grew up, "Bonfire Night" was always in Spring, and was very distinct from Hallowe'en.
@brendaleake
4 жыл бұрын
Dave N: was that Walpurgis night?
@IanLindstrom
7 жыл бұрын
Well researched and extremely interesting. Thank you for your hard work!
@alyssaw5209
4 жыл бұрын
Love this, so well done! Also subtly hilarious. 💛
@martialharpistmatthew1837
7 жыл бұрын
The Halloween tree is a good movie. It points out that in every culture death is somehow linked to the supernatural. That's what people believe anyway. The movies "explanations" are not a direct reason Halloween "as we know it" exists but, the superstitions of ancient times somehow leave traces and influence the way that we live and express ourselves. Death is a very supernatural thing to most cultures even now.
7 жыл бұрын
Hello Matthew, thank you for your comment! I (Lays) don't really disagree! I really enjoyed the Halloween Tree as a movie when I was a child (although I thought it was part of a series and was disappointed to find out it wasn't) and our quip about it winning an emmy mainly stems from other really well written series losing that year. And I'd say your comment agrees in part with our conclusion? If you allow us to quote ourselves : "In the novel and the movie Bradbury is not writing a history of Halloween. He is rather doing what Dickens did for Christmas in A Christmas Carol, a ghostly journey to clarify the meaning of a holiday attacked as too cheerful or not Christian enough. And in essence his book is intended as a response to Christian attacks against Halloween, that's why we are shown the Romans destroying Celtic culture, then Christians destroying all paganism; or that Moundshrew cannot enter a church : to make Halloween separate from christianity. The various pagan traditions invoked serve this discourse and when speaking of Ancient Egypt or Dia de Muertos he does not describe the origins of Halloween, he compares how two cultures deal with death, and tries to draw a lesson : staging death, in a way, allows us to confront it and make it lose its grim side, which for Bradbury would be the function of Halloween." (from 40:24 onwards) I'd even say it's done more efficiently in the movie than in the book, where you lose some of the focus on death with samhain-as-a-deity and a detour by cavemen religion, and also where the persecution of these practices by the roman empire, and mainly christianity, is a more prominent theme - at least it's how I felt reading it, but I don't know if you'd agree regarding the novel.
@ice-po3dz
4 жыл бұрын
love love love love it. thanks for sharing & sincerely appreciate your works & efforts
@leroyrobinson1392
5 жыл бұрын
Speaking a little too fast for me
@Angel-nu7fm
4 жыл бұрын
Yes you have to slow it to .75 in order to listen to it.
@leroyrobinson1392
4 жыл бұрын
@@Angel-nu7fm 😆😆
@geoff6835
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I couldn't follow anything
@Lady.B0420
3 жыл бұрын
I think it is just you guys. Maybe you aren't used to accents?
@iknowyouwanttofly
5 жыл бұрын
I love this please do more videos in english 💟
@pagesegovia2026
4 жыл бұрын
Highly recommend you do research on the ancient Celts' relation to the Phoenicians and other Antediluvian cultures, perhaps there is a reason why old Biblical accounts of Pagan sacrifice are so similar to more modern accounts. Great video!
@ryanjosiah9605
4 жыл бұрын
I would like to! Can you give me some pointers? What other pre flood civilizations have correlations with the ancient Celts?
@alicev5496
4 жыл бұрын
Thats gonna be hard considering there's no such thing as antediluvian cultures
@ryanjosiah9605
4 жыл бұрын
@@alicev5496 How old do you think the earliest human civilization is?
@waiwaianela
6 жыл бұрын
had to slow video down to .75 in order to understand whatever the heck was trying to be said, but even then, suh-WAYNE rather than SOW-wen drove me kinda nuts....LOL
@chaosdream21
6 жыл бұрын
Leave it to the French to ruin Halloween for all of us. Just kidding. This is very informative and interesting. Thanks!
@mcfcfan1870
4 жыл бұрын
Samhain is celebrated mostly in Ireland and in Isle Of Mann and Scotland. That points to that Halloween was a Gaelic holiday and similair to the gaelic language the tradition came from the Irish invasions of Isle Of Mann and Scotland which gave them many Gaelic traditions.
@albertohernandez8721
3 жыл бұрын
I thought Halloween had its origins in Germanic lands aka Germany, and England. Well at least that's what Dr. Ronald Hutton says.
@mcfcfan1870
3 жыл бұрын
@@albertohernandez8721 No, not from what I've seen at all. Could u send a link please?
@shawn5117
4 жыл бұрын
This is a Heathen Pagan Day Festival!
@karisutcliffe265
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you greatly for such a wonderful Presentation! I appreciated finding such unbiased and thoroughly researched approach! What Halloween Song are you using? I couldn't find it by lyrics alone.
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your comment! It is a song by Kristen Lawrence, "Souling Song (Samhain Version)", 2009 (she also did an halloween, more christian, version). It seems we forgot to credit her in the description of the english video but it's added.
@aidanbolger2358
6 жыл бұрын
Did he just really make a dig a people who can't pronounce Samhain right? Pot calling kettle black there man.
6 жыл бұрын
I'd say we pronounce it at least 32% better, not bad for the frenchies we are, but still a deserved criticism.
@aidanbolger2358
6 жыл бұрын
Better than the yanks anyway, in Hollywood, they make us sound like pirates with speech impediments. Apart from the pronouciation of a few of the words, it was a good video. The information was good and the audio was clear.
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you! But I do think it's only fair that we are criticised for attempting to correct a common mispronounciation and ourselves ironically not getting it right.
@farhannaqvi3776
4 жыл бұрын
@@aidanbolger2358 yes Right
@samanthafox3124
4 жыл бұрын
Pray, where are you from? I can't quite place the accent, but I had great difficulty in understanding most of the video. At least the part that I saw, after a few minutes I turned it off as I was getting a headache from trying to figure out what was being said.
@fandomkid9661
4 жыл бұрын
My child hood is ruined 🥺 but at least I learned 😎😳
@gwenc1371
7 жыл бұрын
A very good video, an an appropriate one for this time of year. It really does deserve more views. BUT, that said, you seem to be under the impression that Celtic is synonymous with Gaelic. Or at least you consistently forget that it isn't. For instance, at 23:00 you make the argument that the date of Nov 1 comes from the "germanic" areas, pointing towards what appears to be Southern England, somewhere around Belgium/Netherlands, and Germany. This would be a compelling point if the Celts aren't hadn't been generally understood to have inhabited at least some of these areas! And the thing is that, while it's true these would have been substantively different cultures, there are pretty clearly common themes and cognates across them. They all were, after all, Celtic. Just as a brief example the Iceni tribe in modern Norfolk was considered a British Celtic tribe, and indeed you can see common cultural similarities between these Celts and others in the description of Boudicca wearing a torque necklace(a common feature of many Celtic cultures, and also featured on the figures on the Gundestrup Cauldron found in Denmark). Many of Julius Caeser's unreliable accounts which you discussed also focused on the Celts inhabiting Gaul or England, not Ireland or Wales/Scotland. And it's also worth noting that there are scraps and fragments of deities who are clearly reflexes of deities better attested to in Gaelic mythology. For instance the god Lugus(attested in several Celtiberian sources) seems to have an etymological link with Irish Lugh, and potentially a mythological link with Welsh Lleu{both of whom are associated with shoemakers). Your argument at around 20:50 is also undermined by this focus on specifically Gaelic regions, and isn't helped by your ignoring the fact that the Isle of Man(a highlighted portion of the map indicating bonfires) is HEAVILY Celtic, going back to the 5th century and having a lot of folklore and myth connected to Irish mythology(specifically, the deity Manannan Mac Lir). I think you make a far stronger case for the uinqueness of Gaelic Celtic culture than is actually warranted, particularly in your rather hardline stance that the only Celtic traditions worth considering are those occurring in Gaelic regions.
@iglesiaCristianaFallbrook5016
6 жыл бұрын
You have to understand there was people settled in Ireland from the Mediterranean prior the proto-Civilized Celt came to colonized.
@el290
4 жыл бұрын
A lot of good information. But there is Some conflicting information within the video. But I guess that would happen with multiple sources. No mention of Stingy Jack?
@MimiYouyu
4 жыл бұрын
No, the Christian holy days were plonked on top of what they called Pagan. Its about the cycles of nature and remembering the ancestors.
@sexhaver420
4 жыл бұрын
They were plonked?
@mcfcfan1870
4 жыл бұрын
What I'm not sure about is, is it celtic or gaelic?
@Xbob42
5 жыл бұрын
I've always been curious when people are deciding how to transliterate (when transliteration is involved, not sure if it is here) words like Samhain why they don't just settle on its phonetic pronunciation to figure out the spelling, when using the word in English, of course. Even if Samhain is the original gaelic spelling, it does us English speakers no good to be "taught" how to pronounce it improperly due to the spelling. That's what we have letters for, after all! It should help us understand how to say things without needing someone to instruct us on proper pronunciation. English by itself has so many of these issues, especially with bizarre concepts like "silent letters." I wonder, do other languages have similar issues? I feel as though if anyone not from England takes a look at a map of English towns, for example, they'll pronounce maybe 20% correctly just by reading it. It isn't a huge deal or anything, but I find it needlessly irksome as time goes on. It's basically a never-ending set of special cases. Like, who decided what sounds like t'sao t'sao (or t'sow, either way would work) should be spelled Cao Cao? It basically throws the benefits of having an alphabet out the window for... some reason? I'm sure there's a good reason, right? Sorry for the year-late bizarre rant, but this actually came up because I looked up Samhain for a conversation I was having, to try and remember how it was pronounced, as all I could remember is "not Sam-hane."
@samanthastevens7720
5 жыл бұрын
It's a Gaelic word, spelt in Gaelic and is also and ancient Gaelic holiday. Pronounce it properly. There is not "English" it's a Gaelic feast. The Gaels also adopted the use of Roman letters. The English language does not own the letters.
@Xbob42
5 жыл бұрын
@@samanthastevens7720 Way to completely miss the point of what I was saying. I'm saying that it would be a lot easier for English speakers to "pronounce it properly" if it was transliterated in a way that made sense in English. Keeping the Gaelic spelling to a native English speaker only confuses the pronunciation and makes it more difficult for people to even say the name of the holiday, let alone search it or have a discussion about it without it devolving into, you guessed it, talk about the pronunciation instead of the holiday itself. It's completely counterproductive and nonsensical.
@redsamson5185
2 жыл бұрын
the original jack-o-lantern was carved like a skull face into a turnip
@sheilapalmer6822
5 жыл бұрын
I loved your video Please do more in English Merci beaucoup🙋🏻💝🌹💖
@KyleWhiteandfriends
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful breaking down of preconceived notions
@Grozzyb1
5 жыл бұрын
It's sow-an not so-waine!!!!
@susanritter2520
6 жыл бұрын
"Samhain" is a contraction of "summer's wane," not the name of a god or spirit.
6 жыл бұрын
We indeed say it is not a spirit at 9:55 and repeat Cormac's etymology at 17:05
@brianstewart1077
6 жыл бұрын
brilliant work, kudos et viva!
@onenanathreekids5662
2 жыл бұрын
Well done.
@sarahtaylor2767
5 жыл бұрын
My friend pointed out. That a mandrake head dyed orange could resemble a pumpkin. Ah. I thought.
@IceManLikeGervin
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent upload!!
@redsamson5185
2 жыл бұрын
i like how the celtic calendar was lunar like the jewish calendar even with its month names from babylon
@LADYMILLS99
Жыл бұрын
As I AM BINGE WATCHING THE SERIES “ outlander “🙌🏾🙌🏾
@TeamHG803
5 жыл бұрын
I can barely understand what he saying half the time
@mrs.morris5506
3 жыл бұрын
"Everybody on the internet turned into linguists...." 😂😂😂. I know right!
@BBond88
5 жыл бұрын
Great video
@secretshaman189
3 жыл бұрын
Really good information, good research, but your narration was a bit fast to understand clearly.
@LunaDraven1
3 жыл бұрын
I couldn't help but notice you used a my little pony moon phase graphic at 17:26
@kylefrank638
5 жыл бұрын
7:40 Could the movie writers or producers or someone NOT look up the correct pronunciation of the word? How did that make it into a theatre-released film?
5 жыл бұрын
I think the general rule was to pronounce Samhain with a hard M without checking (but we somewhat fail to pronounce it fully accurately too)
@curryminer8640
6 жыл бұрын
Check out the book. The book of Halloween by Ruth Kelly
@ogruagain
7 жыл бұрын
listen and read...research yourself to try and gain a more personal, fair opinion and then share....
@eve3363
6 жыл бұрын
You speak English very well. May I give you a tip on your stress and pronunciation? I am a linguist, too.
6 жыл бұрын
You may! I'm certain Antoine (who is speaking in the video and a student of english litterature) will take your advice. - L.
@eve3363
6 жыл бұрын
Ok. Thank you. You have an expert use of idioms and sarcasm in the English language. You understand how to use intonation which is essential for comprehension in English. What makes your accent a bit difficult to understand is your stress. Stress is accents placed on certain segments of words. A friend of mine -who is a native French speaker and also a linguist- said that French does not rely on stress. And those words which are stressed are marked with punctuation. On the other hand, most words in English are stressed and using stress correctly is necessary to having a clear English accent. Words can have initial, middle, or final stress; some words have no stress so there is no formula. However the best advice I can give is that generally in English sentences, each word has the initial stress and the last word has the final stress. Above all do not worry about this too much because your English is quite refined. Focusing on where to place stress may disrupt your proficiency.
@samanthastevens7720
5 жыл бұрын
On the Halloween tree. 1.Ancient Egypt. They should a feast and festival that was honoured in ancient Egypt at the the same time of year Samhain is honoured in the Celtic lands (and now throughout the world). Its displaying how completely separated cultures has similar ideals. 2. Celtic "whitches" they arent just witches. As the movies explained "which from wit" druids, people of the educated class. Once druidry was disbanded women with "knowledge" especially knowledge of medicine and spirit were labeled "witches". 3. Day of the dead is a tually the same as Samhain. They have the same origin. Spain and France used to be Gaul, part of the Celtic nations. The day of the dead is the christianised version of the origin pagan Celtic Samhain.
@lukelaiklam4128
5 жыл бұрын
1)Go to video settings 2) Change video speed to 7.5. 3)Enjoy!!
@larrykuehn1457
5 жыл бұрын
Is Halloween and Samhain the same thing?
@juliewesley3066
5 жыл бұрын
It is also in a way our memorial day to remember our loved ones who has died and the ancestors,it is also the beginning of the new year as well as the celebration of the 3rd harvest as plants and animals that go into hybernation and others who migrate to warmer location till spring, peace and love🌒🌕🌘
@knparks1919
4 жыл бұрын
I love Wicca and Halloween!! Such a pure and awesome religion and holiday. Thanks for the vid. Happy Halloween everyone 🎃
@natlenan6743
4 жыл бұрын
What is this?
@Vladviking
5 жыл бұрын
God forbid history and hollywood ever get anything right.
@brendaleake
4 жыл бұрын
original jack o'lanterns were carved from turnips
@Jesse-fk3xc
5 жыл бұрын
wheres the english version?
5 жыл бұрын
Presumably on this very page
@artisticmoose6458
4 жыл бұрын
Rip supernatual 😢
@trueangel989
6 жыл бұрын
so in conclusion it is the day of the death, withches vampires and horror
@redsamson5185
2 жыл бұрын
bonne toussaint!!!
@porkchopulator
5 жыл бұрын
Seeing a lot of complaints about your pronunciation of samhain, but it seems pretty close to the Ulster pronunciation here www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/Samhain which you'd think is more accurate than whinging KZitemrs.
@LADYMILLS99
Жыл бұрын
Eye now understand the origins of AMERICA
@michaelkinsella4247
5 жыл бұрын
The pronunciation is all wrong. It is not "Sam Hain" or for that matter “swain” The proper way is "sow an” with the “Sow” pronounced as you would a female pig. Oiche Samhain is Halloween night and Mí na Samhain is Gaelic for the month of November
@redsamson5185
2 жыл бұрын
Oíche Shamhaina Go Maith!
@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344
4 жыл бұрын
Samhain is pronounced Sowin
@emmabell3159
6 жыл бұрын
Souan is irish i am irish
@KatalinaKristina
4 жыл бұрын
Can he talk slower and stop swallowing his words please? Thanks
@fandielyas
4 жыл бұрын
Play it at 0.75 or/and turn on the subtitles, it makes it easier to understand!!
@ingridbruin3621
6 жыл бұрын
cgp grey look a ....
@2muchswag11
4 жыл бұрын
This is inaccurate and very misleading.
4 жыл бұрын
Please develop.
@albertohernandez8721
4 жыл бұрын
How is it inaccurate?
@2muchswag11
4 жыл бұрын
@@albertohernandez8721 He did not mention the wheel of the year, and totally failed to mention pagan wisdom concerning samhain. I am very disappointed.
@mikewilliams4717
4 жыл бұрын
C'est Pas Sourcé you might want to check this out. kzitem.info/news/bejne/mGuevKasbGtjdY4
4 жыл бұрын
Astrotheology is a fun way to pretend you understand every calendar custom ever because it always aligns with some cosmic event, but I feel that, in this case and many others, it requires you to shun the mere ability to understand any of the many custom you're purporting to explain, by ironing away any evidence that would have been helpful in contextualizing them separately. In this case, even his portrayal of Mithras -- a cult that is, indeed, very mysterious and penetrated by astrological symbolism -- is severely lacking in my opinion. It's like those that claim that celebration of the dead universally occurs during the calendar new year, which to be fair might be an even more widely attested association, but I'd advise to look into it deeper as it's never as mechanical and homogenous as claimed.
@dubuyajay9964
6 жыл бұрын
I am slightly annoyed you use the term Christian and Catholic interchangeably. Not all Christians are Catholic and most of the practices and beliefs you described as "Christian" are of the Catholic sect. Thus, your conclusion is flawed. You would have a hard time getting various Protestants, Greek Orthodox, etc to adopt these Catholic practices as they go against their beliefs. This is why the Great Schism and the Protestant Reformation started to begin with. They thought these beliefs and rituals conflicted with ritual. Also, that story at the end was a false correlation. It wasn't about respecting a pagan ritual, but showing respect and compassion for the departed and those mourning. Also felt like a borderline straw man against "Christians."
@abrokenandacontriteheart1308
6 жыл бұрын
Catholic not Christian. Big difference.
@TrackerRoo
6 жыл бұрын
To Jesus there is no difference, for only the Mormons are correct and all others are wrong. They put Jesus in the name of their churches, so obviously they are the one true religion here.
@abrokenandacontriteheart1308
5 жыл бұрын
@@TrackerRoo Mormons are founded by Mason luciferians.
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