Shocking Facts about Halloween
With the loving approval of their parents, children dress up in weird costumes and play pranks on Halloween night-little realizing that for over a thousand years this one evening in the year has been specially dedicated by spirit mediums and witches to the worship of Satan.
Halloween has nothing to do with Christianity. It is a festival which no one-child or adult-should have anything to do with. We need to better understand the origins of Halloween and its dangers.
During the Dark Ages, a number of pagan customs were adopted by the dominant Christian church in Europe. One of these was devil night, which was later named, "Halloween." This special night, celebrated since antiquity as the night when the devils came out and walked about the streets, was a satanic festival on October 31 of each year.
The next day was called "All Saints Day" or "All Hallows Day", so "Halloween" was the night before Saints’ day. Like the night before it, All Hallows Day was dedicated to honoring the dead.
1. The first known mention of trick-or-treating in print in North America occurred in 1927 in Blackie, Alberta.
2. Halloween takes place on October 31st, the last day of the Celtic calendar. It was originally a pagan holiday, honouring the dead. Halloween was called All Hallows Eve and dates back over 2000 years.
3. There really are so-called vampire bats, but they’re not from Transylvania. They live in Central and South America and feed on the blood of cattle, horses and birds.
4. Samhainophobia is the fear of Halloween.
5. Turnip was the vegetable traditionally carved before the pumpkin.
6. The day after Halloween is called All Saint's Day.
7. The Halloween color orange represent the harvest.
8. You wear masks on Halloween to keep the dead from recognizing the living.
9. It take a pumpkin to 90-120 days to grow.
10. Halloween is the third largest US party day of the year and the second Super Bowl Day.
11. Barnbrack is a traditional Halloween fruit cake.
12. Jack O'Lantern is ashifty villain.
