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Halloween More Than Just Candy Corn For Modern Witches
Author: Trish Reynolds Source: The Mt Olive Weekly News (NJ)
Title: HALLOWEEN MORE THAN JUST CANDY CORN FOR MODERN WITCHES
The American Halloween customs of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats may have it’s roots in ancient culture, but is today celebrated as a purely secular holiday. Culturally it makes sense to have a day or two where spirits of the high sort can be indulged before succumbing to the torpor of the cold coming winter.
Our European ancestors recognized only two basic seasons: the growing season of the light half of the year and the dead season of the dark half of the year. Winter was the dead time of the year where fields lay fallow and the weather made travel difficult. They had to be self reliant to survive the rigors of the time. In the Celtic culture, between these two halves fell Samhain, a day and a night which was literally between time.
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