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Halloween was not always a holiday of candy, costumes, and parties. Its history stretches back almost two thousand years. But what is this history? And what extent can we call Halloween a Christian

holiday...if at all?

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Bibliography and image credits:

Rogers, Nicholas. Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, 2002.

Santino, Jack. Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life, 1994.

Souling picture: https://archive.org/details/cheshiresheafbe01browgoog

Oengusso calendar: https://ia802604.us.archive.org/10/items/martyrologyofoen29oenguoft/martyrologyofoen29oenguoft.pdf

Halloween Frolics painting: http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/halloween-frolics-189976

Guy Fawkes Effigy pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:November_Effigies_(6833391028).jpg

Most other images came from Stephen Reid. An artist from the early 20th century who specialized in paintings of Celtic mythology.

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What is Pagan? Paganism is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians. It was applied on populations of the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative to the Christian population or because they were not milites Christi (soldiers of Christ). Alternate terms in Christian texts for the same group were hellene, gentile, and heathen. Pagan and paganism were pejorative terms for the same polytheistic group, implying its inferiority. Paganism has broadly connoted the "religion of the peasantry", and for much of its history was a derogatory term. Both during and after the Middle Ages, pagan was a pejorative term that was applied to any non-Abrahamic or unfamiliar religion, and the term presumed a belief in false god(s).

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