. Historically, Dark night precedes the Christian Feast of Hallowmas , All Hallows, (when the Romans conquered the Celts, the traditions of the two different people were brought together and some of them were combined. The Druids knew that these three days had a special meaning. The Irish used turnips as their Pumkin originally, but when the immigrants came to America, the found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips. At one time it was believed that the flying in darknesss of all persons who were destined to die in the coming year could be seen walking through the graveyard at midnight on Samhain.
Historically, Dark.
