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Samhain Puzzle
Associated to Place: articles -- by * Asenath Amenhotep (22 Articles), Social Article 1 Featured October 31 , 2005

The object in this one is to fill in each line using the clues below.
The letters that fall into the shaded boxes will spell out the name of something related to Samhain. See? Easy.


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Clues:

1. Which cakes are baked in the shape of antlers to commemorate the god of winter?

2. The seasons and tides are influenced by this satellite.

3. What Samhain means to the farmers. The final __________.

4. This Pope changed All Saints Day from May 13th to November 1.

5. This vegetable is associated with Halloween but it wasn't always so. Turnips and potatoes originally had that honour.

6. A game which apples are floating in water. But beware.... you can't use your hands!

7. Another name for modern day Celtia. Birthplace of Guinness and Baileys.

8. Mortals are able to cross to this during Samhain....

9. From this, each family would light their hearth and would bond together during this time.

10. The start of this season is Samhain.

11. The Roman Feast of the Dead but his was observed on May 13 before it was changed.

12. "Oidhche Shamhna" is better known as....?

13. This shield was lowered allowing the barriers between this world and the "otherworld".


Source: samhain.com and Wikipedia - Halloween


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Posted Oct 29, 2005 - 05:51 , Last Edited: Oct 31, 2005 - 10:08











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