Veles' Night: Where the roots of Ukrainian Halloween come from and whether our ancestors celebrated it.

Every year at the end of October, amidst the bright pumpkins and costume parties, social media posts about the "real Ukrainian Halloween" – Velesova Nych (Veles' Night) – appear. Mentions of it aren't as widespread as Halloween itself, but they're becoming more frequent. But did our ancestors really have such a holiday, or is it just a modern invention, cleverly disguised as an ancient tradition?

Together with Anastasia Kryvenko, Candidate of Historical Sciences and ethnologist LIGA.net investigates who invented Veles' Night and why – and why we believed in it so readily.

Myth or reality: what science says about Veles' Night