CELTIC SAMHAIN in the Bucket

BEWARE  MORRIGAN, CELTIC GODDESS OF DEATH AND BIRTH
She rides with a large black shawl made of raven's feathers, her mount is an all black horse, and she is escorted by huge flocks, a murder of crows and ravens, She trails clouds about her. Amadan is her sidekick, the old court jester whose slightest touch will bring madness to the living.She is an ancient Celtic Queen and Winter is her domain so she appears at SAMHAIN.

I have written before of the Celtic idea of  "Thin times" these are times that are liminal, threshold experiences between two realities. Dusk and Dawn are liminal times. In the calendar of the Celts the  last day of October and the first days of November are a thin time between the warm and the cold parts of the year. After the harvest time, the divide between the living and the dead is blurred. The  ghosts may appear those nights and the Sidhe, the Banshee, roam the land and call and knock at doors of homes wherein someone will die the next year.
We have a remnant of this sacred time in HALLOWEEN and in the All Souls and ALL Saints holy days of the Catholic Church.
Hispanic cultures observe a similar time in their celebration of THE DAY OF THE DEAD so recently explored in the film COCO.

Let's turn our imaginations back to Morrigan, she is a Queen and a Goddess but she is also a Hag. Time and Famine have robbed her of her beauty and she keens for Ireland and for all the millions who died in the famine of 1847-49,