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By : Jerry Glynn

This article explains the history behind the Celtic and Druid holiday All Hallows Eve, better known as Halloween.

While todays celebrations focus on trick or treating, sending Halloween greeting cards, and dressing up, ancient Halloween celebrations were more religiously and culturally focused.

The earliest recorded celebrators of the holiday were the Celts, who lived in what is now Ireland, Northern France, and the United Kingdom 2,000 years ago. Their New Years celebration was on November 1st and was a time when the line between the living and the dead was said to be blurred. The night before, on October 31st, was Samhain, pronounced sow-in the night when ghosts returned to the earth to cause trouble.

Celtic priests or Druids built large sacred bonfires on which animals and crops were burned in sacrifice to these spirits and also to Celtic deities. People also wore costumes during these celebrations, and told each others fortunes.

After the Celtic territory was conquered by the Romans, Celtic traditions were incorporated into a Roman holiday, celebrated in late October, known as Feralia, when the passing of the dead was commemorated. Another holiday, celebrated around the same time by the Romans was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees.
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