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Halloween - 10/31/2007 12:52:50 AM   
Prinsexx


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Status: offline 		Halloween, or Hallowe'en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. It originated from the Pagan festival Samhain, celebrated among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America/Canada in the nineteenth century. The term is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the eve of "All Hallows' Day",[1] also which is now known as All Saints' Day. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 to November 1. Many European cultural traditions, in particular Celtic cultures, hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when spirits can make contact with the physical world, and when magic is most potent It doesn’t take mush to make my house look like a witches cavern as I have candles and symbols abounding anyway. But I have a houseful and so we have also added vodka punch, dark rich fruit cake and bowls and bowls of sweets for the little ones who will flock to the door. Season of Death and Renewa: may you scry your new beloved or have the most powerful exchange of energy with your partner(s).

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RE: Halloween - 10/31/2007 6:19:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		Prinsexx,

Lovely post, and thank you for the well wishes. This day is also my primary partner's and my anniversary, and her birthday. You can bet that we will be celebrating it to the hilt! We wish you the same good energy, and may your harvest for the coming winter months be bountiful!

Joe
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RE: Halloween - 10/31/2007 7:13:44 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Prinsexx

Halloween, or Hallowe'en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. It originated from the Pagan festival Samhain, celebrated among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America/Canada in the nineteenth century.


Halloween actually goes back even farther than that there are referances to such festivals in just about every culture since histroy was first recorded, the earliest of these was in Egypt when they would eat one meal a year with the dead. The Babalonians (I think thats how you spell it) even had a fall festival where they had sex with corpeses (Tim Burton's wetdream). The Huns are actually the first people to trick or treat. they would dress up as local soldiers and such the go door to door demanding supplies for the "local" army. In Mexico their "day of the dead" (I'll be fucked if I can remeber what its called) was actually derived from their major religion (christianity) and is a day to remember their lost ones. My grandmother use to tell me old shintoist fables as bedtime stories one of them was called Yagu Oh. It was about how Oni would prowl around a village during its Fall festival each year. So to hide form the demons the villagers attended the festival wearing masks so the Oni could not tell who was a human and who was a demon. So Halloween seems to be pretty universal, and each culture has its own verson.

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RE: Halloween - 10/31/2007 7:27:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		it's freakin awesome isn't it.....i'm already having a blast..

~meticulous~

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RE: Halloween - 10/31/2007 7:28:47 AM   
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Prinsexx,
we will be celebrating it to the hilt!
Joe
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I love finding the pivotal point of a post too.

:)) Prinn

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RE: Halloween - 10/31/2007 7:30:04 AM   
Prinsexx


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Status: offline 		I know it goes back but it's all i could be bothered to copy from Wiki.....
may your visions come true.

Prinsexx

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RE: Halloween - 10/31/2007 7:31:10 AM   
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it's freakin awesome isn't it.....i'm already having a blast..

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freakin awesome back to you
yes it is sooooooooooooo great the energy this year

Prinsexx

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RE: Halloween - 10/31/2007 7:37:03 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Prinsexx

I know it goes back but it's all i could be bothered to copy from Wiki.....
may your visions come true.

Prinsexx



Theres a lot more but that was all I could remeber from history class.

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RE: Halloween - 10/31/2007 8:16:59 AM   
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And yes, Halloween, or celebrations of harvest, and of respect (and a little fear) of dead ancestors go back to even the Druids in England, 2000 bc. Ray Bradbury makes a good case for it going back to pre-history, and the cult of the dead. America, however, gets most of it's Halloween traditions from Ireland, with it's "mischief night" and the horse headed god Muk'ola and his minions demading food from door to door to insure good luck in the coming year.


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RE: Halloween - 10/31/2007 10:21:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		Funny, I was going to start a post about "Samhain" pronounced "sow-in."
The History channel last night had a documentary about Halloween and how it origionated more than 3.000 years ago in Ireland with the Pagans.
My parents both Irish were married 59 years ago today on Halloween.
The documentary said that the Irish immigrants to this country in the late 1800's found it easier to carve pumpkins into lanterns than turnips so that's how that tradition started.
In Ireland today they have a lot of bonfires.
And in Tallaght just outside Dublin they like to use automobiles for bonfires! lol

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RE: Halloween - 10/31/2007 10:41:43 AM   
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Yeah man, ever carve a turnip?  It sucks!  Pumpkins are much easier.

fergus

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RE: Halloween - 10/31/2007 10:58:45 AM   
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RE: Halloween - 10/31/2007 11:37:47 AM   
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RE: Halloween - 10/31/2007 3:59:42 PM   
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I was the only one who dressed up at work.  I had a blast, going about my everyday stuff as if there was nothing different.  People were trying so hard to keep straight faces

DV


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RE: Halloween - 10/31/2007 4:03:28 PM   
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I was the only one who dressed up at work.  I had a blast, going about my everyday stuff as if there was nothing different.  People were trying so hard to keep straight faces

DV



By far the single best thing I've woken up to.

Ever.


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