Giveaway for October

By Kylie Kirkpatrick

We are doing an exciting giveaway for the month of October! We won’t release the details of it yet because you’ll have to flock to social media to find it! If you are interested in participating, follow us on Facebook and Instagram to keep updated on this amazing giveaway.

Why do we Celebrate Halloween?

By Kylie Kirkpatrick

At Samhain, the Celts had big bonfires and feasts and people would wear costumes. They’d all come together to celebrate the end of the harvest and the beginning of the long, cold, dark winter. And part of the celebration of Samhain was thinking about people who came before them, people who had died. Sounds a little bit like modern day Halloween, Professor Hansen helps bridge the gap. “These various people were celebrating their harvest or death festivals,” she explains. “And what happened was the introduction of Christianity, which had it’s own traditions which also had to do with honoring those who came before. “When the Christians came to what are now Ireland, Scotland and Wales, they brought with them their traditions and [those tradition] got mixed up with the Celtic tradition of Samhain. And a similar thing happened in Latin America when the Christian missionaries came to those countries.” One of the ways the Christians tried to get these other holidays, pagan holidays, into Christian traditions. Christians celebrated something called All Saints Day on November 1st, honoring people who had gone to Heaven. All Saints Day could also be called All Hallows Day. Hallow means holy. So the day before All Saints Day was All Hallows Eve, which eventually came to be called Halloween.

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