Samhain The night of 31 October—Halloween—is "Oíche Shamhna" (Irish), "Oidhche Shamhna" (Scottish Gaelic) and "Oie Houney" (Manx), meaning "Samhain night". The day of 1 November, or the whole festival, may be called "Lá Samhna" (Irish), "Là Samhna" (Scottish Gaelic) and "Laa Houney" (Manx), meaning "Samhain day". These names all come from the Old Irish "Samain" or "Samuin" , the name for the festival held on 1 November in medieval Ireland. This comes from Proto-Indo-European "*semo-" ("summer"). One suggestion is that the name means "summer's end", from "sam" ("summer") and "fuin" ("end"), but this may be a folk etymology. In 1907, Whitley
Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain Samhain, or Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain, is a 2003 Canadian horror film, starring Bobbie Phillips, Richard Grieco, and pornographic actor legends Ginger Lynn Allen, Chasey Lain, Taylor Hayes, and Jenna Jameson. The plot concerns a group of American students camping in Ireland, and studying the legends of the Druids, who are attacked by deformed mutant cannibals from the backwoods. The film was originally produced in 2002–2003, in a longer version with more blood humor and nudity, titled simply "Samhain", but languished until 2005–2006, when it was shortened, retitled "Evil Breed: The Legend