Samhain, celebrated on October 31, the Wicca say farewell to the God. This is a temporary farewell. He isn't wrapped in eternal darkness, but readies to be reborn of the Goddess at Yule.

Samhain, also known as November Eve, Feast of the Dead, Feast of Apples, Hallows, and All Hallows, once marked a time of sacrifice.

Samhain is a time to look over the past year, reflecting on the one phenomenon in life which we have no control over - death. The Wicca feel that on this night the separation between this world and the spiritual world is the thinnest, and so this is the best time for divination or scrying.

Traditional ritual herbs - acorns, apples, broom, deadly nightshade, dittany, ferns, flax, fumitory, heather, mandrake, mullein, oak leaves, sage, and straw.

Altar decorations - a jack-o-lantern, apples, candles in the shapes of Witches, as well as ghosts, black cats, skulls, etc., a photograph of a deceased loved one, tools of divination, a small stute or figurine of the Goddess in Her Crone aspect.

Traditional Sabbat incense - apple, heliotrope, mint, nutmeg, and sage.

Sacred Sabbat gemstones - all black gemstones, especially jet, obsidian, and onyx

Sabbat deities - The Goddess in Her dark aspect of the Crone, Hecate (ancient Greek goddess of fertility and moon-magick, and the protectress of all Witches), Morrigan (the Celtic goddess who presides over death), Cernunnos (Celtic fertility god), and Osiris 9an ancient Egyptian deity whose annual death and rebirth personified the self-renewing vitality and fertility of nature).

Candle colors- black and orange

Traditional foods - apples, pumpkin pie, hazelnuts, cakes for the dea, corn, cranberry muffins and breads, ale, cider, and herbal teas (especially mugwort)