The ancient Celts who lived some 2,000 years ago, started their calendar
on
November 1st.
To celebrate their new year's eve,they would disguise themselves in animal
skins and attempt to predict each other's future,believing that the ghosts
returning from the dead provided a conduit for allowing accurate fortune
telling.
While the tradition of reading tea leaves and peering into crystal balls
has
faded into obscurity in many western cultures, the US included, most still
celebrate October 31st. by donning disguises.
Now this holiday is called Halloween,a reference to it falling on the eve
or
"een" of the Christian holiday of All Saints Day or All Hallows Day.
Those days, economists and others of like mind are positively agog that
Halloween has evolved into a $5 billion retail holiday, a figure that
translates into roughly $60 in Halloween spending for every man, woman and
child in the US.
We will leave it to others to argue another crass example of peculiarity
American commercial excess, or the triumph of secular ideologues over
religious beliefs.
Even though there's always been a deliciously evil allure to Halloween
that
appeals to adults - all that business about devils, witches, vampires,
werewolves, black cats, sorcery and the like - Halloween is just another
holiday for kids and that's the way it should be, perhaps!
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«.·°FAMILY°·.»
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"There is nothing wrong with nepotism
just so long as you keep it in the family."
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