blackforest
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What a wonderful idea!
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JulianN
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We run out. It’s like a parade! And we love it. 
blackforest
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This is a pity, in my humble opinion. Lenore Skenazy: 'Stranger Danger' and the Decline of Halloween - WSJ
I grew up in a cold climate and have traumatic childhood memories of my mom bundling me up! Me wailing: “I’m Cinderella, not an ewok!!” Eventually, we negotiated it down to the coat going under the costume - a fat Cinderella.
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phil19034
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This is NOT true. Halloween is nothing more than the Vigil of All Saints’.
It’s called “Halloween” because All Saints’ Day used to be called the Feast of All Hallows’ in English
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0Scarlett_nidiyilii
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Glorifying?
Not a thing.
Just for funsies?
Yup.
Although skulls pop up in religious art all the time as memento mori.
But I just think they’re neat.
I love All Saints Day. I love that our religions commemorates the Communion of Saints in this way. And I never forget All Souls. Praying for our beloved ones in Purgatory is the last bit of service I can do for them, and it’s a devotion I’ve followed since I was a teenager.
blackforest
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Do you live in a neighborhood with old homes? There are a couple of streets in my town with older, stately homes that appear “haunted.” It’s gets so highly trafficked on Halloween that the residents are begging families to stay in their own neighborhoods! We support the stay-at-home approach because the holiday is a great community-builder.
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HopkinsReb
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Depends on whom you ask.HopkinsReb:
unless we’re talking about Saint Mary
no corpse there
Also, I ain’t her.
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babochka
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My teenagers have a tradition of watching “High School Musical”, a modern Horror Story, on Halloween.
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0Scarlett_nidiyilii
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What was that old meme? “Still a better love story than Twilight”
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JulianN
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Yes. And we play that up. But we’re not begging the families to stay away because we recognize most of the children we see are probably living in neighborhoods that are not particularly safe. We’re just grateful to be living somewhere that parents feel comfortable letting their children dress up and run up and down the streets.
I have to say that it’s a ton of fun!
I have to say that it’s a ton of fun!
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Cruciferi
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Yes, it’s usually cold. Occasionally, we get a warm Halloween 
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CaptainPrudeman
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OP, this level of superstitious thinking isn’t healthy. Maybe you should talk to a preist about your beliefs around Halloween and demons?
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Sarcelle
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Yes
Also called All Hollows Eve
Also called All Hollows Eve
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Sarcelle
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Pray the rosary
It is a most effective weapon against demons.
Go to mass the next day and think of the saints in Heaven who will be cheering us on while we on earth still fight a spiritual battle against evil.
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Bruised_Reed
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Be the house that gives out an XL Snickers bar. Then get ready for next year.
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Medawlinno
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Part of my take on the whole Halloween = Evil/Demonic
It’s difficult to ignore the onslaught, predominantly from various religious sites, that starts about this time every year. The internet begins to be flooded with articles and videos concerning the supposed origin of many of the present-day traditions associated with Halloween. Some are subtle in their message, whilst others loudly tout it as being nothing short of the “birthday of Satan himself.”
In attempting to comment on the complete misunderstandings (due to either lack of research, or being taught incorrectly), and utter absurdities circulating about the supposed origins of both Halloween and its (very tenuous at best) predecessor Samhain, as well as their associated customs, it is honestly difficult to know where to even begin; to encompass it all would quite easily make for a small book.
Modern Halloween as we know it today is just that – a modernly invented ‘holiday’ combining elements of an earlier American tradition called “Hell Night” along with a healthy dose of good old “Hollywood” thrown in for good measure. Virtually all American customs associated with Halloween originated right around the 1920’s - 1930’s or so. While there are some vestigial elements from pre-Christian religions in some of the customs (bobbing for apples for example), the modern costumes, the blood, the gore, the reveling in death and destruction, the candy, even ‘trick or treat’ itself, dates no earlier than 1900’s America. In short, it’s a relatively new phenomenon and represents a mix of cultures, capitalism, and accommodation.
It should be noted that Halloween’s association with Satanic worship and practices though real, is a very modern phenomena (1960’s to present); it’s not old at all. Most people who observe Samhain regard Satanists with just as much disgust and disdain, indeed, if not more so, than Christians - Satanists are responsible for appropriating this day to promulgate their beliefs and completely twist the day into something it simply never was. It is this that has given rise to many touting the day as “demonic”.
Samhain/Halloween is to some people a very spiritual and magickal time of the year; for some it’s a time of fun and candy, perhaps a way to celebrate Fall in general. Still for others, perhaps a time to contemplate their own mortality since the modern holiday mocks death. Some perhaps are not quite sure what to make of it and prefer to steer clear of it, but however you wish to celebrate it….or not – Halloween, in and of itself, is only ‘evil’ if one chooses to make it so.
For Catholics, it is also, of course, the eve before All Saints Day - a holy day of obligation.
It’s difficult to ignore the onslaught, predominantly from various religious sites, that starts about this time every year. The internet begins to be flooded with articles and videos concerning the supposed origin of many of the present-day traditions associated with Halloween. Some are subtle in their message, whilst others loudly tout it as being nothing short of the “birthday of Satan himself.”
In attempting to comment on the complete misunderstandings (due to either lack of research, or being taught incorrectly), and utter absurdities circulating about the supposed origins of both Halloween and its (very tenuous at best) predecessor Samhain, as well as their associated customs, it is honestly difficult to know where to even begin; to encompass it all would quite easily make for a small book.
Modern Halloween as we know it today is just that – a modernly invented ‘holiday’ combining elements of an earlier American tradition called “Hell Night” along with a healthy dose of good old “Hollywood” thrown in for good measure. Virtually all American customs associated with Halloween originated right around the 1920’s - 1930’s or so. While there are some vestigial elements from pre-Christian religions in some of the customs (bobbing for apples for example), the modern costumes, the blood, the gore, the reveling in death and destruction, the candy, even ‘trick or treat’ itself, dates no earlier than 1900’s America. In short, it’s a relatively new phenomenon and represents a mix of cultures, capitalism, and accommodation.
It should be noted that Halloween’s association with Satanic worship and practices though real, is a very modern phenomena (1960’s to present); it’s not old at all. Most people who observe Samhain regard Satanists with just as much disgust and disdain, indeed, if not more so, than Christians - Satanists are responsible for appropriating this day to promulgate their beliefs and completely twist the day into something it simply never was. It is this that has given rise to many touting the day as “demonic”.
Samhain/Halloween is to some people a very spiritual and magickal time of the year; for some it’s a time of fun and candy, perhaps a way to celebrate Fall in general. Still for others, perhaps a time to contemplate their own mortality since the modern holiday mocks death. Some perhaps are not quite sure what to make of it and prefer to steer clear of it, but however you wish to celebrate it….or not – Halloween, in and of itself, is only ‘evil’ if one chooses to make it so.
For Catholics, it is also, of course, the eve before All Saints Day - a holy day of obligation.
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Canvas
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When I was a kid I loved trick or treating.
When I was a bit older, Halloween became a lot more sinful, and I am not talking about costumes or decorations or the goofy stuff that some people here think is “evil”. I am talking about real sin: alcohol and drug abuse, wild parties etc.
I outgrew that phase, thankfully
As an adult, before we had a daughter or when she was real little, we would just put a bowl of candy by the front door and wait for it to be over.
Then she started getting dressed up, but we usually just went to my mom’s house. I remember one year, when she was younger, there was a fern or fake fern or something at my mom’s house she decided was a “scary” plant. I don’t think she was really scared of it, but she liked talking about it. It was really funny. Sometime later, my mom and her threw the plant away together.
Last year we took my daughter full scale trick or treating with two kids who go to the same Catholic school as she does that live across the street. She had fun, but really wasn’t all that interested in candy accumulation, which is weird.
She already got her outfit for this year. She is going to be a police officer (unless she changes her mind). I hope the kids across the street join her. It was a nice experience last year.
When I was a bit older, Halloween became a lot more sinful, and I am not talking about costumes or decorations or the goofy stuff that some people here think is “evil”. I am talking about real sin: alcohol and drug abuse, wild parties etc.
I outgrew that phase, thankfully
As an adult, before we had a daughter or when she was real little, we would just put a bowl of candy by the front door and wait for it to be over.
Then she started getting dressed up, but we usually just went to my mom’s house. I remember one year, when she was younger, there was a fern or fake fern or something at my mom’s house she decided was a “scary” plant. I don’t think she was really scared of it, but she liked talking about it. It was really funny. Sometime later, my mom and her threw the plant away together.
Last year we took my daughter full scale trick or treating with two kids who go to the same Catholic school as she does that live across the street. She had fun, but really wasn’t all that interested in candy accumulation, which is weird.
She already got her outfit for this year. She is going to be a police officer (unless she changes her mind). I hope the kids across the street join her. It was a nice experience last year.
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Hope1960
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We’re going to be really busy that weekend and Halloween night so it’ll be the first year we haven’t given out candy in years.
With the exception of the last few years I’ve always loved Halloween. I’m into it again this year, though, I have some decorations out, in the house and outside. I bought two white pumpkins this year, along with the typical orange.
With the exception of the last few years I’ve always loved Halloween. I’m into it again this year, though, I have some decorations out, in the house and outside. I bought two white pumpkins this year, along with the typical orange.
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phil19034
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A great thing for you to do is to simply go to Mass. Your local parish may have a Vigil for All Saints.
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