Besides Halloween being a beloved holiday for the young an old, Halloween is history! If you read any of the pages before this, you are aware of just some of the rich history this mysterious holiday has to show.
Reality is in the eye of the beholder. History used to be told orally and passed around campfires. Then we learned more when missionaries wrote in journals of the tales they heard when visiting some of these same fires. As that progressed into what you are reading here on the internet. Most of these stories started out as truth, and through multiple retellings it is likely they have been added too.
YES! I truely think it is like eating wax!
Personally, this author loves Halloween!
YES! It was later called Candy Corn for its resemblance to corn, which is chicken feed.
While it might make for good tv, Samhain is a festival for the harvest, not a person then or now. It is still celebrated today around the world.
Yes! There is a well known competition held every year in Florida for carving the best pineapple.
Yes. Pagan or Gaelic festivals include: Yule/Winter Soltice, Imbolc/Candlemas, Ostara/Spring Equinox, Bealtaine/May Day, Litha/Summer Soltice, Lughnasadh/Lammas, Mabon/Autumn Equinox.
Historically yes. Christmas, New Years Day, Easter, and Three Kings Day to name a few.
You never know. I have many projects still to complete. I tend to do them in time with the seasons.
The largest celebration is in Salem, Massachusetts in the United States.
Please don't! I have tried many versions and I've always came to the same waxy conclusion.