Veneration of the dead begging for candy). In Cornwall and Wales, the autumn ancestor festivals occur around Nov. 1. In Cornwall the festival is known as "Kalan Gwav", and in Wales as "Calan Gaeaf." The festivals bear some similarities to the better-known Gaelic festival of Samhain, from which modern Halloween is derived. During "Samhain", November 1 in Ireland and Scotland, the dead are thought to return to the world of the living, and offerings of food and light are left for them. On the festival day, ancient people would extinguish the hearth fires in their homes, participate in a community bonfire festival, and then
The Pagan Christ W. B. Smith. (Andrzej Niemojewski and Deye were noted in the original Barnes list but omitted from the list in "The Pagan Christ") (note; Stendel may be a transcription error of and Deye of Albert Bayet) In December 2007, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation aired a documentary called "The Pagan Christ", based on Harpur's book, as part of its Doc Zone series. Filmed by Bank Productions, it was one of the most-watched television documentaries in Canada that year and received mostly favourable comments on the CBC website. The program won the Platinumo Remi Award at the Houston International Film Festival and