Origin of Sam



Does anyone have any idea from where the hell did Sam come(Yeah, hell is an option). Care to share some spooky stories...?
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Well, I found out what happens to Sam after Halloween.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9W8qz5RpE

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I think he has always existed. I see him as an embodiment of certain elemental forces, a creature that takes different forms as cultures evolve over the ages. I'd reckon he started out as some sort of spirit of the dead and paying respects to the dead, and then as samhain became the festival of the dead, he came to embody samhain and then Halloween as we know it.

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He is the "Great Pumpkin" from the Peanuts.

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According to Sam's actor, Quinn Lord, Sam is a demon that was born in a Pumpkin patch. Going with that explanation, here's what I think Sam is. Sam is not actually a millennia-old deity worshipped by the Celts nor was the Celtic holiday Samhain named after him. Instead, he is either an Unseelie Court fairy (judging from how dark and scary he is) or he is an offshoot of the monstrous looking group of ancient deities known as Fomorians (not all of them are huge and ogreish. Sam is definitely not an offshoot of the Tuatha Dé Danann judging solely from his deformed appearance), both of which would've been regarded as demonic by Christians and are Celtic in origin. Sam was at the earliest born in one of Ireland's pumpkin patches during either the late 1400s or the early 1500s depending on when the pumpkin was first made a part of Ireland's crops, and was in fact born on the day Samhain occurred. Because he was born on the holiday, his Unseelie Court Fairy/Fomorian parents decided to name him after the holiday itself in honor of it, thus Sam is named after the holiday other than the other way around. Because of his birthday and the holiday being the one and the same, Sam had decided to honor Samhain by enforcing its rules upon the mortals, dealing harshly with anybody who dares breaks its rules or does not follow the rules, thus becoming the embodiment of Samhain itself. As the holiday changed over the centuries and so did its rules, Sam became an immigrant to the United States and became the embodiment of his birthday's current incarnation of Halloween, thus enforcing the modern-day holiday's rules rather than the ancient holiday's rules. That's my take on Sam origins.

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About an hour in, I was theorizing that Sam might really be Rhonda. IIRC, you first see her come out of a house with a bunch of jack-o-laterns--and Kreeg is surprised to see that his house suddenly has them in his lawn. I thought maybe she killed him as "Sam", then transformed into Rhonda.

Maybe that bloody dagger will lead us to the murder weapon.

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Sam is the spirit and essence of Halloween.

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That's one thing I want to know. What gives Sam the right to dictate how Halloween should be observed? I mean, who died and appointed him the Batman of late October?

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