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|dates= ???? – 1408 ([[exorcised]])<ref name="four07">[[4.07 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester]]</ref><br>2008 (exorcised by [[Sam Winchester]])<ref name="four07" />
|location= [[Hell]]
|occupation= [[Demon]][[Demon Mutations|Mutation]] <ref name="essential">[[The Essential Supernatural: On the Road with Sam and Dean Winchester]]</ref>
|episodes= [[4.07 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester]]
}}
==History==
Samhain is a special type of [[demon]]or more a "[[demon mutation]]<ref name="essential">[[The Essential Supernatural: On the Road with Sam and Dean Winchester]]</ref>". When he reigned on Earth on Halloween night, people kept their children inside and wore masks to hide from him, carved pumpkins to worship him, and left sweets at their doors to appease him. In this way, Samhain was the origin of modern-day Halloween. He was known to have had brother and sister [[witch]]es serving him; these witches would later be known by the aliases [[Don Harding]] and [[Tracy Davis]]. At the time, Samhain took Tracy for a lover as well as a servant. In 1408, Samhain was [[exorcise]]d by an unknown force.<ref name="four07" />
Samhain can be summoned out of the confines of [[Hell]] by two witches through three human sacrifices over three days, the last of which must occur on the final day of Celtic harvest, the 31st of October, the American Halloween. This ritual can only be attempted every 600 years. As such, Samhain's servants had to wait and prepare until the year 2008 before they could attempt to raise him again. They succeeded, but Don was killed for the third sacrifice and Tracy was murdered by Samhain himself, with Samhain using Don's corpse as his host.<ref name="four07" />
