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
Mongfind Ireland, whom she is said to have killed with poison in a bid to make her son king. She drank the poisoned drink to convince Crimthann, and died soon after at Samhain. According to "Cormac's Glossary", she was a goddess the pagan Irish worshipped on Samhain. This was also called the "Féile Moingfhinne" i.e. "Festival of Mongfind". Later legend, as documented in Patrick Weston Joyce's "Social History of Ancient Ireland", makes her a banshee. A prominent hill called "Cnoc Samhna" ("Hill of Samhain") or "Ard na Ríoghraidhe" ("Height of the Kingfolk") in County Limerick is associated with a tale linked