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The Truth about Halloween Part 1 Halloween's origins date back thousands of years to the Celtic New Year's festival, Samhain (pronounced “SAH-win”). Samhain (which means “summer's end”) was a pagan religious celebration marking the end of summer and the beginning of the new year and the coming darkness Exodus 22:18 – You shall not tolerate a sorceress. Leviticus 19:26 – You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice divination or soothsaying. Leviticus 20:27 – A man or a woman who has a ghost or a familiar spirit shall be put to death; they shall be pelted with stones—and the bloodguilt is theirs. The wiccan new year and a celebration of the coming darkness A three day long celebration of sacrifices to satan himself Samhain is an ancient celebration that is also known as the Witches' New Year. The Celts believed that the boundary between the living and the dead dissolved on Samhain, and that spirits helped their priests make predictions about the future. Samhain was known as the Feast of the Dead According to Irish mythology, Samhain (like Bealtaine) was a time when the 'doorways' to the Otherworld opened, allowing supernatural beings and the souls Hecate (Greek) Hecate is the Greek goddess of witchcraft, magic, crossroads, and the spirit world. Given her ability to communicate with the dead and travel between worlds, her influence is especially powerful during Samhain, when the veil between worlds is thinnest. , the Halloween holiday has its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (a Gaelic word pronounced “SAH-win”), a pagan religious celebration to welcome the harvest at the end of summer, and the coming darkness. Later incorporated into catholic worship. Telling the people lighting bonfires and wearing costumes could ward off ghosts. The truth being that the bonfire is a celebration of the flames if he'll and the costumes are so you can be link demons and they will have intimacy with you. time when the 'doorways' to the Otherworld opened, allowing supernatural beings and the souls of the dead to come into our world the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain, which was held on November 1 in contemporary calendars, with sacrifices starting on October 30th. This 3 day sacrifice ritual is a blood offering. It was believed that on that day, the souls of the dead returned to their homes, so people dressed in costumes to confuse the spirits, pretending to be one of them to gain spiritual knowledge and power as well and intimacy with demons and lit bonfires to celebrate the fires of Hell rising The Celts also believed that the spiritual communication on Samhain made it easier for Celtic priests, or druids, to predict the future, according to History. To appease the deities, they built bonfires and sacrificed crops and animals Scripture carefully instructs Christians against participation in pagan practices directly involving witchcraft, the occult, and the worship of other deities. The spooky day associated with trick-or-treating and costumes originates from Samhain, a three-day ancient Celtic pagan festival. The Celts were a group of people from multiple tribes with origins in central Europe who shared a similar language, religion, tradition, and culture. According to the later Dindsenchas and the Annals of the Four Masters—which were written by Christian monks—Samhain in ancient Ireland was associated with a god or idol called Crom Cruach. The texts claim that a firstborn child would be sacrificed at the stone idol of Crom Cruach in Magh Slécht. Samhain, also known as the origin of Halloween and the personification of it, was a powerful and special demon of Hell and was one of the 66 Seals. When he reigned on Earth on Halloween night, people kept their children inside and wore masks to hide from him, carved pumpkins to worship him, and left sweets at their doors to appease him. In this way, Samhain was the origin of modern-day Halloween Halloween had its origins in the festival of Samhain among the Celts of ancient Britain and Ireland. Halloween falls on October 31 because the ancient Gaelic festival of Samhain, considered the earliest known root of Halloween, occurred on this day. trick-or-treating tradition in part comes from a Celtic Pagan activity that took place on Samhain. Offering sweets to the spirits to prevent them taking your blood if you were found to be human. Halloween was originally an ancient Irish pagan festival called 'Samhain' (pronounced: sow-in), meaning 'end of summer'. During Samhain the Celts wore costumes to disguise themselves and light bonfires as protection from evil spirits or fairies becoming like the demonic spirits to prevent them finding them and possessing, torturing, and putting them to death