Halloween – All Hallows Evening.
This word never appears in Scripture.
The last night of the year in the old Celtic calendar, Old Year’s Night, is a night for witches: A pagan holiday. The word and the magical lore about the date were popularized by Burns’ poem in 1785.
In the 1500s the Catholic Church allowed their converts to retain their pagan holiday by inventing a doctrine and event to coincide with it, which they referred to it as “Hallow-day” or “All-Saints Day”, adding it to their doctrine of worshipping the dead; “the saints in heaven collectively”.
In the1550s The Catholic Church began celebrating their Hallowmas the evening before, referring to it as “All Hallows even”. This event kicked-off their celebration of Hallowtide, which they celebrate during the first week of November. (Hallowmas is the mass of the dead, like Christmas is the mass of Christ.)
In 1781 the Scottish shortened it to “Allhallowe’en”, which has since become shortened to Halloween.
Halloween occurs on the night of the 31st of October and is traditionally said to be the time when ghosts, goblins, and witches can be seen roaming the earth.
Today most people don’t know what Halloween really is. People grew-up simply associating it to the day that people, especially children, dress up in costumes and go from door to door asking their neighbors for candy. Originally, the costumes were of ghosts, goblins, and dead people. Today the costumes can be of anything or anyone, but most people still gravitate to the ghoulish.
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