Editing Samhain (section)

==Celtic Revival==
During the late 19th and early 20th century [[Celtic Revival]], there was an upswell of interest in Samhain and the other Celtic festivals. Sir [[John Rhys]] put forth that it had been the "Celtic New Year". He inferred it from contemporary folklore in Ireland and Wales, which he felt was "full of Hallowe'en customs associated with new beginnings". He visited Mann and found that the Manx sometimes called 31 October "New Year's Night" or ''Hog-unnaa''. The ''[[Tochmarc Emire]]'', written in the Middle Ages, reckoned the year around the four festivals at the beginning of the seasons and put Samhain at the beginning of those. But Hutton says the evidence that it was the Celtic or Gaelic New Year's Day is flimsy.<ref name="hutton363">Hutton, p. 363</ref> Rhys's theory was popularised by Sir [[James George Frazer]], though at times he acknowledged that the evidence is inconclusive. Frazer also said that Samhain had been the pagan Celtic festival of the dead and had been Christianized as All Saints and All Souls.<ref name=hutton363/> Since then, Samhain has been popularly seen as the Celtic New Year and an ancient festival of the dead. The calendar of the [[Celtic League]], for example, begins and ends at Samhain.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Celtic League Calendar |publisher=Celticleague.org |url=http://www.celticleague.org/calendar.html |access-date=5 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508043133/http://www.celticleague.org/calendar.html |archive-date=8 May 2009}}</ref>