ancient pagan festival celebrated by Celtic people over 2,000 years ago,”
The Celts believed that the dead could walk among the living at this time.
“would mistake them for one of their own” and leave them alone. Others offered sweets to the spirits to appease them. a
the Catholic clergy adopted local pagan customs and had their church members go from house to house wearing costumes and requesting small gifts.
Referring to them as “supernatural monsters,” the book Halloween Trivia states that such creatures are “closely connected with death, the dead or the fear of dying.”
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