Characteristics of the Samhain festival included offerings of food and drink for the spirits, feasts, costumes (also referred to as mumming and guising), reciting songs and or verses door-to-door as trade for food, and sacred bonfires. It was believed that this dissolved borderline allowed the souls of the afterlife to roam between these two worlds. Samhain's celebration of seasonal transition was also viewed as a time where favorable crossing existed between the boundaries of the current world and the otherworld. The Celts marked Samhain as the conclusion of the harvest season and the onset of winter. Samhain, Bealtaine, Imbolc, and Lughnasadh represent the four seasonal festivals of Gaelic culture. Many of Halloween's origins and traditions are widely believed to be traced back to the Celtic's ancient Gaelic seasonal festival known as Samhain-pronounced 'sow-in'.
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