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Completely contrary to what many would have one believe, Halloween is _not_ a holiday that has close ties to the ancient past, nor does it have some ‘pagan’ antecedent, nor is it a continuation of several ancient pre-Christian customs. The truth is, to say Halloween’s connections to ancient Samhain, or anything “ancient” for that matter, are, at best, extremely tenuous, would be grossly overstating the facts. A direct connection between Halloween and Samhain has never been proven. Least of all with any legitimate satisfactory evidence to back the claim. Halloween just does not have the “pagan precedent” so many people seem to desperately want it to. What is definitively known about Samhain (that's SAH-wen, BTW) would fit on about a page and a half of paper. What gets passed around the Internet as “history” and “fact” is mostly speculation and utter nonsense. The primary source of what is known comes from the books of the Ulster Cycle. By most historical accounts, Samhain proper was preceded by three days, and followed by three days. In some accounts it’s only a three-day celebration (not a seven day). Samhain seems to have been a time to prepare for winter, to welcome in the dark half of the year, cull the herds and celebrate the final harvest of the year. Particular activities that these old Gaelic texts seem to suggest were very popular at Samhain were…. Athletic/warrior-type competitions, horse racing and….lots of drinking. That sounds a lot like many European holidays today from October-January. The texts also speak of it as a time to pay tithings, gather taxes, and the holding of a judicial assembly (much like the Manx ‘Tynwald Day’). There is zero evidence that it was a religious observance, that it entailed any ritual, that it was a celebration of the dead, or that it opened the Celtic year. Anything else asserted to be associated with Samhain is either pure wishful thinking or absolute nonsense. The idea that Samhain is Celtic New year comes from the 1800’s in a book, “The Golden Bough” by Scottish anthropologist and folklorist, James Frazer. As noted, there is zero historical evidence for such a claim. In addition, the phrase “the veil between the worlds was thinnest”, is a relatively new term to describe an ancient concept (not just with the Celts) of “thin places/times” - when the spirit world and the physical world are close. Samhain was such a time, but so was Beatline/Beltane and many other times and places. Samhain was no more important a time than any other. In short, it’s been “hyped up”. There is zero evidence the Celts ever donned costumes of animal pelts to ward off evil spirits. Costuming for trick-or-treat comes from about 1930's North America. The concept of trick-or-treat dates to about then as well. It has no ties to mumming, guising or souling. Historical similarity does not equate to historical sameness. When it comes to Halloween, there is no continued ancient tradition. Halloween's association with Satanic worship and practices though real, is a very *modern* phenomena (1960's to present), and, of course, has zero connection to the pre-Christian Celtic holiday Samhain. Most people do not realize that the connection here is no more than 50-60 years old. For those who observe modern Samhain, Satanists are regarded with just as much disgust and disdain, indeed, if not more so, than Christians regard them - Satanists are responsible for appropriating this day to not only promulgate their beliefs, but to completely twist the day into something it simply never was. *Not* to defend them in _any way,_ but, again, to be completely fair, it should be noted that most supposed practices of these groups are, again, based upon complete misinformation and supposition: not actual fact. Many of their assumed and supposed practices stem from the so-called “Satanic Panic”, a conspiracy theory that swept across America in the 1980’s and early 90’s. It seems however, that some Christian denominations are doing their darndest to bring it back. Interviews and ‘testimonies’ from ‘Satanic Panic’ holdovers, as well as newcomers such as John Ramirez, and so-called, self-styled, ‘ex-witches/ex-Satanists” are just one of many examples. Many will also assert that the establishment of All Saint’s Day (and All Souls Day on 2.NOV) was the early church’s attempt to “Christianize Samhain” or co-opt some of its customs, but this just does not stand to reason. To state it briefly, the date of 1. November for All Saint's Day was practiced in continental Europe (predominantly in the German speaking lands) _long_ before the date was formerly fixed by the Church to November 1st, and _long_ before said change got to what is now the UK & Ireland; which was _centuries_ after the time of Druids and Samhain proper. Think about this logically for a moment, why would the church change a major feast day affecting _all_ of Western Christendom just to accommodate a small group of Christians who lived on, what would be considered at that time, some remote group of islands in the middle of nowhere, centuries after Druids and the observance of Samhain? The final change from May to November was primarily initialed by the German Christians for political reasons. Further, Hallowtide is a combination of _fixed_ feast days. Samhain is a _movable_ feast day and can change a bit each year depending on when the Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice fall. Samhain is exactly in between the two. Astronomically, it occurs at the culmination of the Pleiades (when they reach their highest point in the night sky). On today's calendar, that's around 21 November, but that's due to all the changes in the calendar over the years. In more ancient times, it was around 6/7/ November. Let’s be honest, the Bible says absolutely nothing about Halloween. Bible verses cannot be simply cherry-picked and ripped completely out of historical and cultural context and made to fit Halloween (or anything else for that matter). Further, these verses typically are used to reinforce what amounts to misinformed suppositions about the holiday. Oftentimes this is accompanied by the typical fear-mongering rhetoric common at this time of year. As one commenter puts it - “This smear campaign against Halloween, in which it has been scapegoated among Christians as the ultimate manifestation of secularism and satanism in contemporary culture, only goes back to fairly recent modern times when certain Christian groups resorted to any fanciful tale to counter the emerging counterculture of the 60's and 70's that they perceived as corrupting youth. Christian leaders since then have clutched us in a guilt trip ever since about a holiday which, prior to this extreme reaction, was indeed harmless for the most part like any other holiday and had no connection with satanic rituals. It was a cultural festival which, though mischievous at times, really posed no threat to society until we were forced to believe that it did.” And, as Orthodox Priest, Fr. M. Sietsema, quipped in a 2010 article about Halloween, “And let’s be honest: modern Halloween for you and me-and even the Wiccans down the street-has nothing to do with virgin sacrifice or black magic. It’s about having fun in a costume and eating things your dentist wouldn’t approve of. No one was ever possessed by the devil because he or she dressed up for Halloween or passed out licorice or read a Harry Potter book. Our modern lives have way too many other avenues for temptation to enter, and these things are the real cause of our spiritual problems. In the end, we are forced to conclude that, like it or not, Halloween is only ‘evil’ for those who choose to make it so.

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