Michael Luna

Mrs. Boswell

English

31 October 2018

The Devil and Halloween

Halloween is a holiday of tricks and treats ghouls, witches, and monsters, but did you

know that the rabbit hole goes deeper with then that. The history of halloween as always been

part of the devil and the most darkest of evil.

It all started 2,000 years ago in​ ​a place that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and

northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This holiday marked the end of

summer and the start of the harvest and the beginning of winter which is often associated with

human death. Celts or Druids believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary

between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31 they

celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to

earth(Halloween 2018).

Years later in 43 A.D. the roman empire conquered most of the celtic territory. In the

course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin

were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain(Halloween 2018). They

worshipped the goddess Pomona, of fruit and trees her symbol is the apple and the incorporation

of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of “bobbing” for apples that is

practiced today on Halloween(Halloween 2018). During the rise of christianity in Rome the old

Pagan ways died and they adopted those old holidays and changed it to a more christian way of
life On May 13, 609 A.D., Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Pantheon in Rome in honor of all

Christian martyrs, and the Catholic feast of All Martyrs Day was established in the Western

church. Pope Gregory III later expanded the festival to include all saints as well as all martyrs,

and moved the observance from May 13 to November 1(Halloween 2018). By the 9th century

the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended with and

supplanted the older Celtic rites. In 1000 A.D., the church would make November 2 All Souls’

Day, a day to honor the dead. It’s widely believed today that the church was attempting to

replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related church-sanctioned holiday(Halloween 2018).

The first time the word ​halloween​ was known it came from a poem from a Scottish poet

Robert Burns who helped to popularize the word "Halloween" with his 1785 poem of the same

name(Cain Oct. 31, 2017 The dark history behind Halloween is even more chilling than you

realized). Soon many traditions will be borrowed in colonial New England As the beliefs and

customs of different European ethnic groups as well as the American Indians meshed, a

distinctly American version of Halloween began to emerge. The first celebrations included “play

parties,” public events held to celebrate the harvest, where neighbors would share stories of the

dead, tell each other’s fortunes, dance and sing(Halloween 2018 ). Colonial Halloween festivities

also telled ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds. By the middle of the nineteenth

century, annual autumn festivities were common, but Halloween was not yet celebrated

everywhere in the country.

There many christians back then and today that believe that Halloween was not all fun

and games but a deception of the devil. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for

what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with
darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an

infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the

living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and

they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the

Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and

ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty"(Halloween is for Devil

Worshippers).

II Cor 6:14-18

Considering that the Devil (Satan) is evil and associated with darkness Christians will

believe that this is all a deception from the devil. The mixing of light and dark, good and evil is

dangerous and it is not what Jesus taught.The Druids invented the earliest Halloween

celebrations. They were an order of Celtic sorcerers. The Bible condemns all sorcery and

sorcerers (Rev 21:8; 22:15). November 1, the first day of the Celtic year, was a feast day to

Samhain, lord of the dead, by the Druids. But the Christian God is the God of the living (Mark

12:27)! The jack-o-lantern, large fires, and apple bobbing also come from superstitious

paganism, as most any encyclopedia will prove; but God condemns the use of religious practices

from unbelievers (Deut 12:29-32; Jer 10:1-2)(Halloween is for Devil Worshippers).

Halloween has a very deep story that many people may or may not know from celtics to

the modern day with a addition of delivery.

 Sources

http://www.letgodbetrue.com/bible/holidays/halloween.php​ ​10/31Halloween is for Devil

Worshippers

https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween​ 10/31Halloween 2018

https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-halloween-2017-10​ ​10/31 Cain Oct. 31, 2017 The

dark history behind Halloween is even more chilling than you realized