Halloween History

I agree with alchemist. However the word holiday is derived from holy day,..so unless he is a believer in some god..he ought not to ever have a holiday

I don't see the correlation of using a well known and defined word, regardless of origin as an assumption that someone must believe in/follow a deity to practice it. You might as well be calling everybody cavemen because we're communicating a sound that means a specific thing. Besides that, all of the abrahamic religions stole from paganistic beliefs, druids, shamans to make their "Holy days". So technically in your own viewpoints he's either agnostic or polytheistic, not monotheistic.

David Skal is an excellent author. I have several of his books on classic horror films. The Monster Show is an exceptionally good one.

You commenters are both right. Christmas is both Pagan and Christian, they changed the Pagan festival to be about Christ's birth in order to ease people's transition into Christianity. Jesus wasn't born in December necessarily, but that was how they decided to celebrate it on the Winter Solstice along with the Pagan festival.

Actually christmas isn't Jesus' birthday as it says in the bible thats there were lambs in the manger and everyone knows lambs are only born in spring

Right.. is December Spring?

There were lambs, Mary, Joseph, other animals and other people, plus an angel.

Christmas IS about Christ's birthday, little girl.

@alchenistp2: In chatting with a friend in Poland, we discussed Halloween and Christmas and how those holidays ere practiced in Poland. I told him that I could see no correlation between Christmas and the constant drumbeat of Buy Buy Buy of Capitalism. Where is the religion? Halloween is celebrated in Poland by putting light (candle) on the graves of the dead. Some Poles are now using light powered with batteries. There is no historical evidence that there ever was a Jesus..

Halloween, originally known as Samhain, was a celebration of the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. spirits of the dead would cross into our world and people would sacrifice animals to appease these spirits and keep them away from their homes. Samhain, originated in Ireland, so i would expect different customs from Poles. I know their is no evidence for Jesus, I do not believe he ever existed but i do believe that Christmas is a Pagan holiday disguised as Christianity.

They Say In Medival Times,when Everyone Had No Education, Any Smart Women was a Witch (not men). So every year on All hallows Eve they would try to kill them cause they thought it was the day for evil.

samhain is actually a female festival as opposed 2 the maale solstices + equinox's.... samhain, bein feminine actually falls on the 1st full moon AFTER oct31st... this yrs is 2moro... nov2nd..peakin at about 4pm, therfore the door be open btween midnight on 31st - 4pm nov 2nd this yr... happy communing :-) x