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You can dream yourself to sleep if you want to, my love, but try not to wake your dead
The sequel: an autumn winter's evening.
But Will was not smiling as he listened. He said thoughtfully, "You just said, in the next year. And the verse says, 'On the day of the dead when the year too dies.' But that doesn't make sense. Hallowe'en isn't the end of the year."
"Maybe once upon a time it used to be," Bran said. "The end and the beginning both, once, instead of December. In Welsh, Hallowe'en is called Calan Geaef, and that means the first day of winter. Pretty warm for winter, of course. Mind you, nobody is going to get me to spend the night in St Cadfan's churchyard, however warm."
—Susan Cooper, The Grey King (1975)
But Will was not smiling as he listened. He said thoughtfully, "You just said, in the next year. And the verse says, 'On the day of the dead when the year too dies.' But that doesn't make sense. Hallowe'en isn't the end of the year."
"Maybe once upon a time it used to be," Bran said. "The end and the beginning both, once, instead of December. In Welsh, Hallowe'en is called Calan Geaef, and that means the first day of winter. Pretty warm for winter, of course. Mind you, nobody is going to get me to spend the night in St Cadfan's churchyard, however warm."
—Susan Cooper, The Grey King (1975)
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I was so glad to catch it.