Halloween must be getting quieter ?

Tigsteroonie

hollydays wrote: »

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ghouls

Must be a new swear word ...

Gingernutty

I've commented on this thread and my comment was thanked.

Where'd it go?

Why the g word is filtered out is down to a relatively persistent troll on the financial forums who used the term religiously to describe someone who he thought was profiting from other peoples' misfortunes.

Red*Dragonfly

RichardD1970 wrote: »

It's All Hallow Eve, the eve of All Saints Day, but like most Christian festivals it was places over older pagan festivals to help assimilate those religions into Christian doctrine.

Thanks, I went to school in late 80s early 90s, everything was taught from christian pont of view.

Torry_Quine

Red*Dragonfly wrote: »

It's Christian, it was thought that on the day before all saints day, the demons can wall the earth. So If you went out after dark you had to dress like a demon so that they would not recognize you as a human.

Or something like that anyway! I was told this at school a long time ago.

RichardD1970 wrote: »

It's All Hallow Eve, the eve of All Saints Day, but like most Christian festivals it was places over older pagan festivals to help assimilate those religions into Christian doctrine.

Red*Dragonfly wrote: »

Thanks, I went to school in late 80s early 90s, everything was taught from christian point of view.

To reply to all.

As you see it is a pagan festival in origin and that's why I don't celebrate it. The early church was trying to have things which people would be able to know and recognise but that is not the case now in any way.

Red*Dragonfly

Torry_Quine wrote: »

To reply to all.

As you see it is a pagan festival in origin and that's why I don't celebrate it. The early church was trying to have things which people would be able to know and recognise but that is not the case now in any way.

Yes, I knew this about christmas and easter, but i'd never looked into halloween, even though I have an interest in celtic mythology, and it turns out that its the celtic new year.