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10/25/2006
6:52:05 pm EDT
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Haunting Season
Author: Teddye Snell Source: Tahlequah Daily Press (OK)
Title: HAUNTING SEASON
A week from tonight, the streets of residential Tahlequah will be full of witches, ghosts, goblins and many other caricatures intent on receiving treats or playing tricks.
Halloween, All Hallows Eve (“hallow” means “sanctify”), or Samhain (for those of Celtic descent, pagans or Wiccans) is associated with many customs, not just going door-to-door asking for candy. Other names for the holiday include Hallowtide, Hallowmass, Hallows, The Day of the Dead and All Soul’s Night.
The holiday had its beginnings in the British Isles, while modern-day trick-or-treating began in the U.S. Both are based on customs brought to this country with the Irish immigration after 1840.
According to Witches’ Voice, a leading Wiccan Web site, Samhain is a very spiritual time for Wiccans and pagans, because Oct. 31 lies exactly between the Autumnal Equinox and the Winter Solstice, and provides a very potent time for magic and communion with spirits.
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| Praise For "Haunting Season" | Oct 26th. at 12:20:14 am EDT
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spatch3 (Orcutt, California) - Email Me
I just sent this comment to the editor fo this publication. I feel it is necessary to praise those who get it right just as much as it is necessary to try to show those who get it wrong the error of their ways:
I must commend Teddye Snell for his fair (unbiased) article about Samhain from October 25, 2006 03:29 pm. For this time of year is like he said "very spiritual" for Wiccans and pagans, but it is also a time in which old wounds are opened time and time again. Arguably, the worst one of which:
Samhain, being "The Lord of the Dead": This "myth" has existed only as far back as 1770, when scholarship of ancient peoples was rather sloppy, especially ancient peoples that for what ever reason needed to be deionized. See here for the origin of this "myth:"
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W.J, Bethancourt III has an on line essay which traces the God Samhain myth back to the year 1770 when Col. Charles Vallency wrote a 6 volume set of books which attempted to prove that the Irish people once came from Armenia. Samhain as a god was later picked up in a 1827 book by Godfrey Higgins. 9 That book attempted to prove that the Druids originally came from India.
I'm just glad this one rather slanderous "myth" hasn't been propagated in your publication. Thank you again.
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