I love Halloween.
I don't particularly know why I love it.
I just do.
I don't dress up.
I don't go to parties.
I don't go Trick'O'Treating.
I don't worship Satan.
I don't vandalize abandoned buildings.
If you think about it... Halloween is a sad, depressing day. Dan, can you enlighten us on the History of Halloween? Or better yet- write a little story about this house and what happened on the dark, wet night; October 31, 1923?
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I'll get to it soon.
Blgh..... I hate Halloween! It is stupid, evil, creepy, scary and point less! I hated dressing up waking all over the neighborhood asking people for candy knowing that there was 3 huge bowls at home! I didn't even eat all the candy! What is the point?
That deleted comment from Sarah was me! cause somebody forgot to sign out of the blog and it even isn't her computer!
I'm with you Bonnie. I love it too. You can share Lily's Halloween candy with me this year.
I'm not a big fan of Halloween, but I do like the time of year when things start cooling down and (at least at night it gets down to 80) and you can start decorating in fall colors and listening to Christmas music. I think people have taken things way to far and made Halloween way to evil and creepy.
Halloween is the BEST! You don't need to worry about buying gifts for everybody or putting up a tree and then taking it down or decorating outside (not that I do anyway). To me Christmas is the holiday that's too commercialized. Halloween is all about scaring the heck out of your kids and other kids as well. Last year I made a baby cry. Apparently it didn't like my zombie face.
Allow me....
Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).
The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.
To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities.
During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter. By A.D. 43, Romans had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain. The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of "bobbing" for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.
By the 800s, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands. In the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV designated November 1 All Saints' Day, a time to honor saints and martyrs. It is widely believed today that the pope was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. The celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints' Day) and the night before it, the night of Samhain, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween. Even later, in A.D. 1000, the church would make November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honor the dead. It was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels, and devils. Together, the three celebrations, the eve of All Saints', All Saints', and All Souls', were called Hallowmas.
Halloween is certainly is not evil. So people like to dress up and scare each other for one night out of the year....big woopie. When I hear the word evil I think of Oprah, Dr. Phil, The View, Obama, and every other self aggrandizing pathological social narcissist that is contributing to our society's downfall. Shivers... Now those people are evil!
Why that was very informative...:D
Yeah, what he said.
Like I said, PEOPLE have made it evil and creepy. If we could take it back a few years it would be fine. But it all has to be gore and blood and witchcraft.
"But it all has to be gore and blood and witchcraft."
Speaking of which, I have a story to write.
Halloween is just another day to me...I'm sure I'll be a little more into it in a few years when my kids are older. But for now...hello and goodbye to Halloween
Lets call it what it really is...
It is a day for kids to get free candy...well...they do "earn" it by walking miles and miles back and forth......and for what?!...to get the crappy black and orange nasty taffy that nobody EVER eats...unless you're my dad. Just go to walgreens and by some bags yourself. I say, lets go camping instead!
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