Who is this Sam Hain anyway?

[rhionnach]

I have no idea who started it but the annual mentions of "Samhain lord of the dead" are appearing in the usual places. But according to Witchvox one lot have recanted and removed their erroneous article.

http://www.witchvox.com/wren/wn_detaila.html?id=16339

The article can still be seen on the Google cache at http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:i2Pjz3gHY5sJ:chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps094.shtml+%22The+Hijacking+Of+Hallow%27s+Eve+%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&lr=lang_en


Just goes to show that some people will listen when we try to correct the propaganda put about by some people who claim to speak the truth. I suppose they're not all bad.

I just wonder where this Sam Hain stuff came from in the first place.

Comments

[highstone.livejournal.com]

Well, it *does* make a handy pun - one well known musician (also a Pagan) out in Arizona had an old West persona that ran the 'Sam Hain Detective Agency'.

[thepixeltypo.livejournal.com]

Good grief, this is the first I ever heard of this :(

[istari.livejournal.com]

One book that I like "Witchcraft Medicine", is written by no less than *four* people who are scholars with PhD's in the area.
Each chapter/section is written by a different scholar but I noticed that even in that book there was a one-line mention of "Samhain being Lord of the Dead", and I was like, "Doh!"
It is pretty sad when you have four heads together, each with a PhD, and who are supposed to be schoalrs in the area of witchcraft and pagan studies and yet they can't even gte things right! Well, at least one out of the four...
*rolls eyes*

Halloween

[trystn.livejournal.com]

The first reference I recall slandering poor old November as "Lord of the Dead" (Arawn and Teutates are now out on the dole, I suppose?) is the late 70's - early 80's slasher film "Halloween."
There is also some kooky fundamentalist crap put out by Jack Chick and Bill Schnoebblen (the so-called "christopher sinn".)