Faithspace ; Some Christians Are Very Uneasy About Halloween

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THIS evening you may get children knocking on your door playing Trick or Treat, asking for money or sweets and dressed up in masks and clothes as witches or Grim Reapers.

It started off 2,000 years ago as a Celtic festival marking the end of summer and the onset of dark winter nights. It was associated with the dead, whose ghosts were thought to be able to cross the border between the living and the dead at this time. Ancestors were welcomed and honoured, but harmful spirits were warded off by wearing disguises so as not to be recognised.

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Faithspace ; Some Christians Are Very Uneasy About Halloween

Carved turnips or pumpkins were placed on window sills to represent the faces of the departed and to scare off evi...

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