Samhain Festival 2024 Calendar. Samhain is a cross quarter festival, which is halfway between autumn equinox and winter solstice. Samhain is a gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the darker half of the year.
As the nights lengthen, the púca festival casts its magical glow upon ireland’s ancient east. It’s the third of the three annual harvest festivals, when the last of the row crops, wild herbs and forage, and animals.