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Calan Gaeaf
All Hallows’ Night, the first day of winter. Ysbrydnos – Night of Spirits, when the boundaries between our world and the Otherworld begin to blur and the souls of the departed may walk among us once more. Branwyn – The White Crow.
"Calan Gaeaf is the name of the first day of winter in Wales, observed on 1 November. The night before is Nos Galan Gaeaf, an Ysbrydnow when spirits are abroad... This is the first day of winter, the start of the dark half of the year..."
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