Halloween has spread rapidly and many unknowingly join in and have fun. In parties, people dress up as devils, ghostly creatures, witches, wizards and goblins. People do things which are even repulsive.

Halloween, derived from "All Hallows Eve", is a pagan feast. On this day, the Celts celebrated the feast of their god of the dead, Samhain. They believed that on 31 October, spirits return from the afterlife to visit the living. They feared these spirits very much because they thought that they could hurt or even kill them. That is why they kept food offerings ready that night to appease them. Druids, Celtic priests, also went from house to house and demanded offerings. Not infrequently did they demand human sacrifices for Samhain. Sacrifices were usually children, demanded from the terrified population. If the family refused the child, the Celtic priests smeared the door with blood, which was like a death sentence for all those living there. To protect themselves from the spirits, the druids wrapped themselves in animal masks because they believed that the power of the animal would be transferred to them. For the same purpose, they also carved demonic grimaces into pumpkins or large turnips and placed a candle made of human fat inside, which came from previous sacrifices.

About 1200 years ago, Pope Gregory III wanted to oust the Celtic cult and introduced the feast of "All Saints' Day" to commemorate the first Christian martyrs. This explains the current meaning of the word Halloween as an abbreviation of "All Hallows Evening" - the evening of all the saints - which clearly shows the contrast to "All Hallows Day" - All Saints' Day. Halloween - as a Christian newspaper writes - is darkest paganism, in which the Celtic god of the dead, Samhain, was worshipped and played his atrocious game, including human sacrifices.

Irish emigrants brought the cult of Halloween to America, where it is still celebrated on 31 October, the night before All Saints' Day. Children, like the druids back then, go from house to house demanding a sacrifice - "treat". If no sweets are offered, they play a trick on the owner of the house, unaware that the original "trick or treat" of the druids brought death or ruin and was idolatry in its purest form.

Our children are taught that Halloween is something funny . . .

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