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| Re: Halloween [boodskap #52710] |
Do, 01 November 2001 21:48  |
Mafuta
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"Patricia" skryf in boodskap news:nOhE7.4806$8s4.20780@news.indigo.ie...
> The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840's by Irish
> immigrants fleeing their country's potato famine. At that time, the favorite
> pranks in New England included tipping over outhouses and unhinging fence
> gates.
>
> The Jack-o-lantern custom probably comes from Irish folklore. As the tale
> is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster,
> tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in
> the tree's trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the
> devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him
> down the tree.
Baie interessant, Paddy (aangesien jy nou in die Emerald Isle is...). En
die Amerikaners het die dag so oorgeneem dat die meeste mense dink dis nou
uitsluitlik Amerikaans. Ek sê HOERA vir ou Jack - hy is seker die enigste
ou wat daarin geslaag het om Hel te ontsnap! Self het ons hier daardie aand
'n hele paar kloppe aan dei deur gehad en kinders aangetrek in allerhande
kostuums - die eerste keer dat ek dit hier sien... moes al my geliefkoosde
jelly beans weggee (dis oor die swartes wat ek die meeste huil!) - geen
politiek hierin te lees nie, asseblief.
Vertel ons nou 'n paar van daai berugte Ierse grappies.
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| Re: Halloween [boodskap #52714 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #52710] |
Do, 01 November 2001 23:12  |
Patricia
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Ja, die kinders kry die laaste week in Oktober skoolvakansie om voor te
berei vir Halloween en op die ouers se senuwees te werk!
So, gisteraand het ons toe die Halloween ding gedoen en wat 'n aangename
verrassing! Nie net het die kinders dit geweldig geniet nie, maar selfs ek
het dit ook geniet.
Ons het opgedress, my seun was Dracula en my dogtertjie was 'n grillerige
Liewe Heksie met besem en al! Teen sesuur toe lui die deurklokkie met die
eerste trick or treeters op die drumpel. Nou ja, toe was daar nie meer keer
nie, ons moes toe ook uit. Het gaan klop aan elke deur en sweeties, vrugte,
grondboontjies, pop corn en wie weet wat nog alles gekry, die kinders was
erg be:indruk met die spulletjie. Daar was oral vuurwerke, wat terloops
geheel en al verbode is in Ierland, honderde ma's en pa's in die strate met
die kleingoed en 'n heerlike atmosfeer. Almal het mekaar gegroet asof hulle
ou vriende is.
Ek was erg be:indruk deur alles. Later het ons toe na 'n groot stuk oop
veld gestap, net so 2 minute se stap, om na die grootste "bonfire" te gaan
kyk wat ek nog ooit gesien het wat tot laat aangehou het. So teen 11 uur
was alles oor en verby, maar vandag het my buurvrou vir my kinders elkeen 'n
pakkie lekkers gebring omdat sy nie gisteraand by die huis was nie! Hoe
bedagsaam!
En asof al die feesvieringe nie genoeg was nie, hou ons boonop Saterdag
verjaardagpartytjie vir my meisiekind wat 'n volle vier vingertjies oud is!
Die werk is nog nie klaar nie...............:-)
Maar ons doen dit met 'n smile, want elke verjaarsdag gebeur mos net een
keer!
Dus my algehele indruk van Halloween was baie positief en ek is verbaas dat
dit nie posgevat het in SA nie, maar met die omstandighede is dit dalk
verstaanbaar, maar ek moet sê dat dit baie gesonde pret vir die kinders en
ouers is - gisteraand was heerlik!
"Patricia" skryf in boodskap news:nOhE7.4806$8s4.20780@news.indigo.ie...
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> So bietjie meer agtergrond - ongelukkig in engels, maar ek is seker dit
> sal nie 'n probleem wees nie!
>
>
>
> Halloween is an annual celebration, but just what is it actually a
> celebration of? And how did this peculiar custom originate? Is it, as some
> claim, a kind of demon worship? Or is it just a harmless vestige of some
> ancient pagan ritual?
>
> The word itself, "Halloween," actually has its origins in the Catholic
> Church. It comes from a contracted corruption of All Hallows Eve. November
> 1, "All Hollows Day" (or "All Saints Day"), is a Catholic day of observance
> in honor of saints. But, in the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer
> officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (sow-en), the
> Celtic New year.
>
> One story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who
> had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living
> bodies to possess for the next year. It was believed to be their only hope
> for the afterlife. The Celts believed all laws of space and time were
> suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with
> the living.
>
> Naturally, the still-living did not want to be possessed. So on the night
> of October 31, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make
> them cold and undesirable. They would then dress up in all manner of
> ghoulish costumes and noisily paraded around the neighborhood, being as
> destructive as possible in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies
> to possess.
>
> Probably a better explanation of why the Celts extinguished their fires
> was not to discourage spirit possession, but so that all the Celtic tribes
> could relight their fires from a common source, the Druidic fire that was
> kept burning in the Middle of Ireland, at Usinach.
>
> Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who
> was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the
> spirits. Other accounts of Celtic history debunk these stories as myth.
>
> The Romans adopted the Celtic practices as their own. But in the first
> century AD, they abandoned any practice of sacrificing of humans in favor of
> burning effigies.
>
> The thrust of the practices also changed over time to become more
> ritualized. As belief in spirit possession waned, the practice of dressing
> up like hobgoblins, ghosts, and witches took on a more ceremonial role.
>
> The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840's by Irish
> immigrants fleeing their country's potato famine. At that time, the favorite
> pranks in New England included tipping over outhouses and unhinging fence
> gates.
>
> The custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have originated not with the
> Irish Celts, but with a ninth-century European custom called souling. On
> November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would walk from village to
> village begging for "soul cakes," made out of square pieces of bread with
> currants. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers
> they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors. At
> the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after
> death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could expedite a soul's passage
> to heaven.
>
> The Jack-o-lantern custom probably comes from Irish folklore. As the tale
> is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster,
> tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in
> the tree's trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the
> devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him
> down the tree.
>
> According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to
> Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell
> because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single ember
> to light his way through the frigid darkness. The ember was placed inside a
> hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.
>
> The Irish used turnips as their "Jack's lanterns" originally. But when the
> immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more plentiful
> than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin,
> lit with an ember.
>
> So, although some pagan groups, cults, and Satanists may have adopted
> Halloween as their favorite "holiday," the day itself did not grow out of
> evil practices. It grew out of the rituals of Celts celebrating a new year,
> and out of Medieval prayer rituals of Europeans. And today, even many
> churches have Halloween parties or pumpkin carving events for the kids.
> After all, the day itself is only as evil as one cares to make it.
>
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| Re: Halloween [boodskap #52722 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #52710] |
Vr, 02 November 2001 04:46 |
Jonas
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Dankie Patricia - feitelik en interessant. As jy nie omgee nie sal ek dit
vir die gemeenskapskoerantjie gebruik - feitlik onverwerk ...
"Patricia" skryf in boodskap news:nOhE7.4806$8s4.20780@news.indigo.ie...
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>
>
> So bietjie meer agtergrond - ongelukkig in engels, maar ek is seker dit
> sal nie 'n probleem wees nie!
>
>
>
> Halloween is an annual celebration, but just what is it actually a
> celebration of? And how did this peculiar custom originate? Is it, as some
> claim, a kind of demon worship? Or is it just a harmless vestige of some
> ancient pagan ritual?
>
> The word itself, "Halloween," actually has its origins in the Catholic
> Church. It comes from a contracted corruption of All Hallows Eve. November
> 1, "All Hollows Day" (or "All Saints Day"), is a Catholic day of observance
> in honor of saints. But, in the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer
> officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (sow-en), the
> Celtic New year.
>
> One story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who
> had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living
> bodies to possess for the next year. It was believed to be their only hope
> for the afterlife. The Celts believed all laws of space and time were
> suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with
> the living.
>
> Naturally, the still-living did not want to be possessed. So on the night
> of October 31, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make
> them cold and undesirable. They would then dress up in all manner of
> ghoulish costumes and noisily paraded around the neighborhood, being as
> destructive as possible in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies
> to possess.
>
> Probably a better explanation of why the Celts extinguished their fires
> was not to discourage spirit possession, but so that all the Celtic tribes
> could relight their fires from a common source, the Druidic fire that was
> kept burning in the Middle of Ireland, at Usinach.
>
> Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who
> was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the
> spirits. Other accounts of Celtic history debunk these stories as myth.
>
> The Romans adopted the Celtic practices as their own. But in the first
> century AD, they abandoned any practice of sacrificing of humans in favor of
> burning effigies.
>
> The thrust of the practices also changed over time to become more
> ritualized. As belief in spirit possession waned, the practice of dressing
> up like hobgoblins, ghosts, and witches took on a more ceremonial role.
>
> The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840's by Irish
> immigrants fleeing their country's potato famine. At that time, the favorite
> pranks in New England included tipping over outhouses and unhinging fence
> gates.
>
> The custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have originated not with the
> Irish Celts, but with a ninth-century European custom called souling. On
> November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would walk from village to
> village begging for "soul cakes," made out of square pieces of bread with
> currants. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers
> they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors. At
> the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after
> death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could expedite a soul's passage
> to heaven.
>
> The Jack-o-lantern custom probably comes from Irish folklore. As the tale
> is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster,
> tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in
> the tree's trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the
> devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him
> down the tree.
>
> According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to
> Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell
> because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single ember
> to light his way through the frigid darkness. The ember was placed inside a
> hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.
>
> The Irish used turnips as their "Jack's lanterns" originally. But when the
> immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more plentiful
> than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin,
> lit with an ember.
>
> So, although some pagan groups, cults, and Satanists may have adopted
> Halloween as their favorite "holiday," the day itself did not grow out of
> evil practices. It grew out of the rituals of Celts celebrating a new year,
> and out of Medieval prayer rituals of Europeans. And today, even many
> churches have Halloween parties or pumpkin carving events for the kids.
> After all, the day itself is only as evil as one cares to make it.
>
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| Re: Halloween [boodskap #52723 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #52722] |
Vr, 02 November 2001 05:27 |
Danielle
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 06:46:20 +0200, "Jonas" wrote:
> Dankie Patricia - feitelik en interessant. As jy nie omgee nie sal ek dit
> vir die gemeenskapskoerantjie gebruik - feitlik onverwerk ...
Jy sal darem hopelik die verwysing na die webskakel dan ook plaas, nè?
Moontlik het Patricia hierdie skakel gebruik?
http://wilstar.com/holidays/hallown.htm
Hier is nog 'n paar ander:
http://www.openhere.com/holidays/halloween/history.htm
http://www.neopagan.net/Halloween-Origins.html
http://www.marvelicious.com/halloween.html
http://www.northvermont12.com/halloween/origins.html
http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Forum/5452/hallorig.html
http://www.chalicecenter.com/samhain.htm
http://www.jeremiahproject.com/halloween.html
ens ens ens....
> "Patricia" wrote in message
> news:nOhE7.4806$8s4.20780@news.indigo.ie...
>> So bietjie meer agtergrond - ongelukkig in engels, maar ek is seker dit
>> sal nie 'n probleem wees nie!
>> Halloween is an annual celebration, but just what is it actually a
>> celebration of? And how did this peculiar custom originate? Is it, as some
>> claim, a kind of demon worship? Or is it just a harmless vestige of some
>> ancient pagan ritual?
>> The word itself, "Halloween," actually has its origins in the Catholic
>> Church. It comes from a contracted corruption of All Hallows Eve. November
>> 1, "All Hollows Day" (or "All Saints Day"), is a Catholic day of
> observance
>> in honor of saints. But, in the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer
>> officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (sow-en),
> the
>> Celtic New year.
>> One story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those
> who
>> had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living
>> bodies to possess for the next year. It was believed to be their only hope
>> for the afterlife. The Celts believed all laws of space and time were
>> suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with
>> the living.
>> Naturally, the still-living did not want to be possessed. So on the
> night
>> of October 31, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to
> make
>> them cold and undesirable. They would then dress up in all manner of
>> ghoulish costumes and noisily paraded around the neighborhood, being as
>> destructive as possible in order to frighten away spirits looking for
> bodies
>> to possess.
>> Probably a better explanation of why the Celts extinguished their fires
>> was not to discourage spirit possession, but so that all the Celtic tribes
>> could relight their fires from a common source, the Druidic fire that was
>> kept burning in the Middle of Ireland, at Usinach.
>> Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who
>> was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the
>> spirits. Other accounts of Celtic history debunk these stories as myth.
>> The Romans adopted the Celtic practices as their own. But in the first
>> century AD, they abandoned any practice of sacrificing of humans in favor
> of
>> burning effigies.
>> The thrust of the practices also changed over time to become more
>> ritualized. As belief in spirit possession waned, the practice of dressing
>> up like hobgoblins, ghosts, and witches took on a more ceremonial role.
>> The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840's by Irish
>> immigrants fleeing their country's potato famine. At that time, the
> favorite
>> pranks in New England included tipping over outhouses and unhinging fence
>> gates.
>> The custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have originated not with
> the
>> Irish Celts, but with a ninth-century European custom called souling. On
>> November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would walk from village to
>> village begging for "soul cakes," made out of square pieces of bread with
>> currants. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers
>> they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors.
> At
>> the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after
>> death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could expedite a soul's passage
>> to heaven.
>> The Jack-o-lantern custom probably comes from Irish folklore. As the
> tale
>> is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster,
>> tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross
> in
>> the tree's trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with
> the
>> devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him
>> down the tree.
>> According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to
>> Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell
>> because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single
> ember
>> to light his way through the frigid darkness. The ember was placed inside
> a
>> hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.
>> The Irish used turnips as their "Jack's lanterns" originally. But when
> the
>> immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more
> plentiful
>> than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin,
>> lit with an ember.
>> So, although some pagan groups, cults, and Satanists may have adopted
>> Halloween as their favorite "holiday," the day itself did not grow out of
>> evil practices. It grew out of the rituals of Celts celebrating a new
> year,
>> and out of Medieval prayer rituals of Europeans. And today, even many
>> churches have Halloween parties or pumpkin carving events for the kids.
>> After all, the day itself is only as evil as one cares to make it.
>
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| Re: Halloween [boodskap #52724 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #52710] |
Vr, 02 November 2001 05:47 |
Danielle
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 07:48:14 +1000, "me & bobby magee" wrote:
> En
> die Amerikaners het die dag so oorgeneem dat die meeste mense dink dis nou
> uitsluitlik Amerikaans.
Terwyl ek netnou gesoek het na die skakel wat Pat gebruik het, kom ek
op hierdie oulike skakel af (net om die Amerikaanse Halloween bietjie
in perspektief te kry hier!) :-))
http://britishhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa102700b.htm
Laat ek sommer aanhaal:
"It is believed that the tradition of Halloween reached America with
the Irish immigrants of the 19th century who, according to Barkin and
James, retained the belief that ghosts and spirits roamed the earth on
Halloween. It is even possible that it was the Irish that developed
the idea of trick or treating when villagers would go begging for food
for a feast or perhaps the festival of St. Columb Kill.
According to the History Channel, it was in America that the modern
Halloween we know today began to develop. Some would hold parties
where ghost stories were told. Following earlier traditions, some
would go house to house looking for food. It developed into a family
festival full of parties and hi-jinx. Fun, games, and dressing up in
scary costumes all became part and parcel of the fun. The History
Channel argues that the religious overtones were largely gone by the
beginning of the 20th century. The problem though was that in the
1920's and 1930's the hi-jinx got a little out of hand and vandalism
became quite a problem. There were campaigns for a sane Halloween, and
Jill Pederson Meyer on the Bethancourt site argues that "safe and fun
alternatives were organised, children were encouraged to go door to
door for treats, and keep trouble makers away." The History Channel,
on the other hand, believes that trick or treating could be used as an
inexpensive way for the whole community to share Halloween, and giving
treats could prevent tricks or worse acts been played on them. This is
a tradition that has boomed, and the History Channel estimates that
Americans spend $2.5 billion annually on this festival. Halloween,
while still popular in Britain, has never reached such heights. The
celebration of Halloween was not popular in England for along time.
People seemed to prefer to put their efforts into Mischievous Night
and Bonfire Night on November 5th.The celebration of Halloween
regained popularity as an American import, following the success of
films such as the 1980's film E.T., and we now celebrate a largely
Americanised version of this festival, illustrating just how cultures
can surpass physical and geographical boundaries. Halloween today
certainly seems to have gone full circle.
Don't get me wrong. I am not belittling the significance of Halloween,
because for many modern believers in paganism, Samhain is still an
important festival. Our witch compares it to a Memorial Day, similar
to what the Americans observe in May and what the British might call
Remembrance Day, which is along way removed from a satanic ritual.
Pagans, like the rest of us, should be left to celebrate Halloween how
they want to. What you cannot do is attempt to enforce your beliefs
onto someone else or try and misinterpret history to suit your
beliefs. Halloween and its origins can be interpreted in a myriad of
ways, and there are a number of folk stories to account for where the
traditions come from. What is clear is that none of them are satanic
or evil in origin. However, don't take my word for it. Don't take my
account at face value either. Do some research for your self, use the
links I have provided, read what others have to say, and draw your own
conclusions. The first rule of a good historian is always to ask
questions. Despite all that, Halloween and trick or treating can be
fun, just take a responsible adult, and oh, make sure you wrap up
warm!
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| Re: Halloween [boodskap #52729 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #52714] |
Vr, 02 November 2001 06:25 |
Kekkelbek
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My dogter en haar maats hou maar elke jaar hul eie Halloweenpartytjie.
Elkeen trek maar die een of ander kostuum aan. Sy was die vorige keer die
heks en dit het haar goed gepas!
Patricia skryf in boodskap news:GFkE7.4879$8s4.21305@news.indigo.ie...
> Dus my algehele indruk van Halloween was baie positief en ek is verbaas dat
> dit nie posgevat het in SA nie, maar met die omstandighede is dit dalk
> verstaanbaar, maar ek moet sê dat dit baie gesonde pret vir die kinders en
> ouers is - gisteraand was heerlik!
>
>
>
>
> "Patricia" wrote in message
> news:nOhE7.4806$8s4.20780@news.indigo.ie...
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>>
>>
>> So bietjie meer agtergrond - ongelukkig in engels, maar ek is seker dit
>> sal nie 'n probleem wees nie!
>>
>>
>>
>> Halloween is an annual celebration, but just what is it actually a
>> celebration of? And how did this peculiar custom originate? Is it, as some
>> claim, a kind of demon worship? Or is it just a harmless vestige of some
>> ancient pagan ritual?
>>
>> The word itself, "Halloween," actually has its origins in the Catholic
>> Church. It comes from a contracted corruption of All Hallows Eve. November
>> 1, "All Hollows Day" (or "All Saints Day"), is a Catholic day of
> observance
>> in honor of saints. But, in the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer
>> officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (sow-en),
> the
>> Celtic New year.
>>
>> One story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those
> who
>> had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living
>> bodies to possess for the next year. It was believed to be their only hope
>> for the afterlife. The Celts believed all laws of space and time were
>> suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with
>> the living.
>>
>> Naturally, the still-living did not want to be possessed. So on the
> night
>> of October 31, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to
> make
>> them cold and undesirable. They would then dress up in all manner of
>> ghoulish costumes and noisily paraded around the neighborhood, being as
>> destructive as possible in order to frighten away spirits looking for
> bodies
>> to possess.
>>
>> Probably a better explanation of why the Celts extinguished their fires
>> was not to discourage spirit possession, but so that all the Celtic tribes
>> could relight their fires from a common source, the Druidic fire that was
>> kept burning in the Middle of Ireland, at Usinach.
>>
>> Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who
>> was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the
>> spirits. Other accounts of Celtic history debunk these stories as myth.
>>
>> The Romans adopted the Celtic practices as their own. But in the first
>> century AD, they abandoned any practice of sacrificing of humans in
favor
> of
>> burning effigies.
>>
>> The thrust of the practices also changed over time to become more
>> ritualized. As belief in spirit possession waned, the practice of dressing
>> up like hobgoblins, ghosts, and witches took on a more ceremonial role.
>>
>> The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840's by Irish
>> immigrants fleeing their country's potato famine. At that time, the
> favorite
>> pranks in New England included tipping over outhouses and unhinging fence
>> gates.
>>
>> The custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have originated not with
> the
>> Irish Celts, but with a ninth-century European custom called souling. On
>> November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would walk from village to
>> village begging for "soul cakes," made out of square pieces of bread with
>> currants. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers
>> they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors.
> At
>> the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after
>> death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could expedite a soul's passage
>> to heaven.
>>
>> The Jack-o-lantern custom probably comes from Irish folklore. As the
> tale
>> is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster,
>> tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross
> in
>> the tree's trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with
> the
>> devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him
>> down the tree.
>>
>> According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to
>> Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell
>> because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single
> ember
>> to light his way through the frigid darkness. The ember was placed
inside
> a
>> hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.
>>
>> The Irish used turnips as their "Jack's lanterns" originally. But when
> the
>> immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more
> plentiful
>> than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin,
>> lit with an ember.
>>
>> So, although some pagan groups, cults, and Satanists may have adopted
>> Halloween as their favorite "holiday," the day itself did not grow out of
>> evil practices. It grew out of the rituals of Celts celebrating a new
> year,
>> and out of Medieval prayer rituals of Europeans. And today, even many
>> churches have Halloween parties or pumpkin carving events for the kids.
>> After all, the day itself is only as evil as one cares to make it.
>>
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