trick-n-threadWhy do we have a day that is supposed to do nothing but scare the dickens out of us?  Why do we bob for apples or have scary pumpkins sitting on our front porch?  Why do we dress up like ghost and goblins or other fancy creatures? All of these questions can be answered by looking back at the origin of Halloween. 

More than two thousand years ago there lived a people known as the Celtics.  They were a proud, fierce and combative tribe which inhabited Ireland, the northern areas of France, and the United Kingdom.  Their new year started on what you and I know as November the first. The beginning of November marked the end of warm weather and the growing season. In addition the hours of darkness ruled over the hours of daylight and the Celts being of a superstitious nature; believed that things which go bump in the night roamed and ruled the night hours.

As the hours of darkness prevailed much of the time was spent spinning yarns and the retelling of stories which had been passed from generation to generation.  One of the beliefs that had been passed down was the belief that the dead returned on the night before the beginning of the New Year; October 31st . It was believed on this night they returned to avenge the wrong deeds done to them and to bring forecast of the events to occur in the New Year. Read the rest of this entry