Samhain Aftershave Splash

It was the pagan Celts who first learned of the Otherworld. Ensconced upon their ancestral island home, they had long coexisted with fell creatures, spirits that could wreak havoc and trap the unwary, but who also could provide boons and good luck for the right price. Wise women told stories of the aos sí, the fairies of beyond who dwelled among the burial mounds. They said that within the mounds were portals to other places. To the Otherworld, the eldritch home of the fae. The wise women said that nothing could be gained by warring with the spirits. They commanded magics that could beguile and bedevil, confuse and confound, and rob the unwary of everything they held dear. They could steal the joy from a man’s heart with a word and take his happiest childhood memories with a mere thought. How could the Celts fight such things? Such mystical powers were not the ken of mortals. Better, instead, to celebrate them and make them feel welcome. And so they held two feasts to honor the inhabit