HAPPY HALLOWEEN FOR HERE!
history
Halloween originated as the ancient Celtic harvest festival of Samhain (pronounces [Sow-en]) in Ireland and ancient Britain, when the spirits of the dead were thought to revisit their homes,
and all kinds of ghosts, goblins, witches and demons were believed to
be roaming about. In the 9th century, the Catholic church grafted the
Christian onto the pagan when it named Nov. 1st 'All Saints' Day' and Oct. 31st became 'All Hallow's Eve'.
The holiday was introduced to the United States in the last century by Irish immigrants as a largely secular occasion for trick-or-treating and making mischief.
Currently a little-known but burgeoning neo-pagan movement exists in this country and in Europe. It is part of the explosion of interest in New Age religion.
Consisting mostly of educated professionals, they gather on Halloween
and solstices in forests and fields for newly invented rituals which mix
ancient celtic customs with nature worship.
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Halloween as it is celebrated these days is but a pale representation of its rich and multicultural history. It is not, as some would call it, a celebration of the Devil or of Hell or of the Damned, but rather a blending of the celebrations marking the end of the growing season, a heralding of the coming of the winter months and folk traditions that told of the day when the veil between the living and the dead, ever a transparent, gossamer veil at that, would lift and ghosts and ghouls would walk among the living. From those many traditions, coming to us from the Celts, the Roman rituals and even Catholic tradition, we get the stirrings of what would eventually become Halloween.
Halloween as it is celebrated these days is but a pale representation of its rich and multicultural history. It is not, as some would call it, a celebration of the Devil or of Hell or of the Damned, but rather a blending of the celebrations marking the end of the growing season, a heralding of the coming of the winter months and folk traditions that told of the day when the veil between the living and the dead, ever a transparent, gossamer veil at that, would lift and ghosts and ghouls would walk among the living. From those many traditions, coming to us from the Celts, the Roman rituals and even Catholic tradition, we get the stirrings of what would eventually become Halloween.
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Happy halloween. byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
