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73Scary Movies Scariest
Halloween is lurking just around the corner. It’s a night filled with mystery and lore when ghosts and goblins and creatures of all description and size come out to taunt and haunt. A tradition of...
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78All Hallows Eve
The term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening before All Hallows' Day. In Ireland the name is All Hallows' Eve (usually shortened to Hallow...
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75The Celebration of Samhain
Samhain or Sam Hain is a pagan celebration for the harvest in the fall. It also represents the Celtic New Year. Samhain is the Celtic-Gaelic word meaning summers-end. Contrary to popular belief, it is not...
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60Halloween costumes for couples
Halloween means All Hallows Eve, or the night before "All Hallows', also called 'All Hallowmas', held Oct. 31. In the 7th century, Pope Boniface IV introduced All Saints' Day to replace the dead pagans. It is...
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65Halloween Origin
Pictured above: All Hallow's Eve Premium Giclee Print The holiday of Halloween began long ago with the rituals surrounding the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celtic New Year...
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76Celebrating Samhain
Samhain marks one of the two great doorways of the Celtic year. The Celts divided the year into two seasons: the light and the dark. Some believe that Samhain was the more important festival, marking the...
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55Shakespeare - and Halloween?
The plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream is very simple. A group of lovers wander into the forest on midsummer-night's eve...however, because it is a magical time when the mystical world opens to the everyday...
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55Halloween - Fact and Fiction
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67Halloween Customs in Great Britain – The Celtic Lands
Halloween in the 21st century conjures up images of grinning pumpkin lanterns and kids in costumes going out ‘Trick or Treating’. It is now very much a commercial event, with costumes, make-up and candy. But in Britain the origins of Halloween go back into the mists of history...
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69Why We Carve Pumpkins At Halloween
Why do we carve scary faces into pumpkins at Halloween and call them Jack-O-Lanterns anyway? The reason stretches back into the mists of time to the ancient Celtic religion. Before it was Halloween,...
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