Halloween started as a pre-christian celebration of the end of the harvest and is believed to be one of the 2 times of the year when the veil between this world an the next was thinnest.

The other night is April 30th.It was traditional to carve turnips and squash into scary faces to frighten off malevolent spirits for the coming year.The same purpose was applied to dressing up in scary outfits.Pumpkin carving didn’t start until later.There was never any incident of “Human Sacrifice”.

A straw effigy or scarecrow was burned, not humans.Just as an interesting FYI, all major religions at 1 point in time practiced human sacrifice.Yes, even the early Christians.There is no substantiating statistics that prove child disappearances are higher on Halloween than any other time of the year.That is a myth.Back in the early days of Christianity, if it wasn’t Christian, it was of the devil, and this has persisted to this day.

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