Halloween Celebration

Halloween, I beleive is Catholic, isn't it? all hallows eve before all saints day? all the same, I prefer Halloween as the modern version of Samhain. the old Pagan festival. what's wrong with a Pagan festival. to a Pagan such as myself it is a time for drawing loved ones close, and remembering the ancestors and loved ones that have gone before us, and showing them respect and honour. it is also the festival of the last harvest, when in farming communities, before we were able to buy imported food all year round, the healthiest animals would be selected to keep over winter, when food was scarce, and the rest slaughtered, and the meat preserved for the hard times ahead. there would be a feast of those parts of this harvest that wouldn't keep for long, such as the offal. so it is a great time of community, family, and honouring the ancestors, while being grateful for what we have now, and hoping for enough to sustain us through winter. surely NO SANE PERSON can see evil in that. all the same, Samhain, All Hallows Eve, whichever is nearest to your own spiritual beliefs, is in fact religious in nature.