Across Scotland, bonfires burned on hilltops on the 31 st October and were known as Hallowe’en bleeze. It was thought that at Samhain the boundary between our world and the otherworld – which in Celtic mythology was a supernatural realm where the souls of the dead and spirits dwelled – was at its thinnest and thus most easily crossed.Īs time passed, fire remained central to many communities’ Halloween rituals. Halloween as we know it today can be traced back to the pagan festival of Samhain which was observed between the 31 st October and 1 st November in Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man, marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter with ritual bonfires. Samhain was marked with ritual bonfires, a tradition that remained central to Halloween celebrations in the Scottish Highlands. Historically, Scotland had its own distinct set of traditions and beliefs that trace their beginnings back centuries – here are just a few of them… While these activities are now ubiquitous not only at Skibo but across the country at Halloween, this was not always the case.
#SPIRITS TRAPPED IN BOTTLES PROJECT HALLOWEEN MOVIE#
The boy went back to school to become a doctor and became one of the most successful and famous doctors with the help of his magical cloth that healed wounds. The boy went to sell the axe head and made 400 times more money than he needed to pay for the broken axe, and finally he told his father the story of the spirit in the bottle.Īfter that the father recognized that the boy's cleverness had made them rich and was happy. The father was extremely disappointed that he would have to replace the axe, which belonged to his neighbor. After turning his axe into silver, he tried to cut a tree in front of his father but bent the axe head. The spirit gave him a special cloth with one side that would turn any object into pure silver and the other side that would heal any wound. The boy decided it was worth the risk and released the demon. The spirit pleaded with him and offered to make him rich. The demon, shocked, began begging the woodcutter's son to open the bottle again, but he refused unless the spirit promised to benefit the boy. So the spirit, to show that he really could do whatever he wanted, re-entered the bottle to show the boy how strong he was, and the boy stopped the bottle up again. The young woodcutter then challenged the demon spirit, saying that it did not have the ability to get back in the bottle. There he saw a bottle, but when he opened it a giant demon sprang out and said it would break his neck and kill him. During a lunch break, instead of resting, he defied his father and went wandering through the forest, where he heard a voice saying it was trapped at the bottom of the tree. The son insisted on going to the woods to work with his father, but the father didn't think he could handle the hard work. The woodcutter always wanted his son to go to school but they didn't have enough money, and after a few years he had to come home. Once upon time, there was an old woodcutter and his young son.