How To Celebrate Halloween Like A Real Witch?

If there is one day in the year when everyone can practice magic, it's definitely on the evening of October 31st! While children rejoice in wearing scary costumes and going trick-or-treating, true modern witches are getting ready to celebrate the festival of Samhain. Even if you're not a follower of Wicca, we will give you 3 ideas to celebrate Halloween like a real witch.

Thank nature for its generosity.

In the calendar of pagan holidays, also known as the Wheel of the Year, the date of October 31st holds a special significance. It marks the end of a cycle, the completion of summer and the harvest.

Whether it is called Halloween or Samhain, this holiday is an opportunity to thank nature for its generosity and for the bountiful harvests it provides us. Harvesting and preparing seasonal produce is the first way to celebrate Halloween like a true witch.

You can either harvest a pumpkin and other seasonal vegetables from your garden if you have one, or visit a local farmers market to buy seasonal vegetables, preferably organic to respect the soil and the environment.

Then use the seasonal produce like squash, pumpkins, turnips, carrots, apples, and chestnuts to prepare a vegetarian feast, without meat or fish. This way, you will respect all living beings while celebrating the cycle of seasons.

If you harvest a pumpkin, you can of course carve it into a lantern, but don't throw away its flesh! Cook it into soup or pumpkin pie and you will have the perfect magical formula to combine indulgence and celebration of autumn.

2- Illuminate your house to ward off evil spirits.

In Celtic tradition, the night of Samhain is when the veil that separates the world of the living and the world of the dead is thinnest.

This pagan belief has inspired several Halloween traditions that we still perpetuate today, such as carving pumpkins and wearing masks. Originally, masks were used to confuse evil spirits and illuminated pumpkins were used to ward them off...

Therefore, if you want to celebrate Halloween like a true witch, don't give in to the temptations of a commercial holiday that uses a lot of natural resources to make plastic decorations and other synthetic materials! Instead, go and gather your decorations from nature, in the forest or in your garden, and use them to make lanterns.

You can not only carve pumpkins in the purest tradition of Jack o'lantern but also glue different shaped and colored autumn leaves onto glass jars or pots.

All that's left is to put candles inside, preferably made of real beeswax, to ward off shadows and evil spirits that roam during the night of Samhain. In Celtic tradition, it is also said that the light of the candles guides lost spirits so they can find their way.

3- Have a thought for the missing.

In France, Halloween is celebrated on the eve of All Saints' Day and the day before the Day of the Dead. However, in Celtic tradition, it is during the night of Samhain that homage must be paid to the deceased. The ultimate way to celebrate Halloween like a true witch is therefore to remember loved ones we have lost.

Wicca followers believe that this particular night facilitates spiritual contact with the departed, as it is the night when the deceased can cross the veil between the two worlds and visit the living.

Do not see anything macabre in it, but rather take this opportunity to cherish the memory of your ancestors by sharing photos and anecdotes about them with your family.