Before candy bowls and costumes, before jack-o’-lanterns and haunted houses, there was something older. Something deeper. Something sacred. Long before Halloween became a night of trick-or-treating, it was Samhain a Celtic festival marking the end of the harvest and the beginning of the dark half of the year. It was a time when the veil between the worlds was at its thinnest, when spirits could walk among the living, and when the living could glimpse the mysteries of the beyond. But even Samhain was not the beginning. Beneath the layers of modern Halloween lies a tapestry of ancient beliefs, woven from the myths of forgotten gods, shadowy archetypes, and the primal fear of the unknown. These are the roots we rarely speak of, the ancestors, spirits and haunts who once guided humanity through the darkness of winter and the mysteries of death.