When Is Samhain 2024. Samhain today marks the end of the harvest, the start of the pagan/wiccan new year, and the honoring of our ancestors and the dead. As the nights lengthen, the púca festival casts its magical glow upon ireland’s ancient east.

Samhain today marks the end of the harvest, the start of the pagan/wiccan new year, and the honoring of our ancestors and the dead. This special day is when the veil between this world and the other world is the thinnest.