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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nDid you know that the modern-day Halloween holiday was\noriginally celebrated as a Celtic pagan holiday? In the Eight Century AD, Pope\nGregory III designated November 1st to honor the dead. Over time, some of\nthe traditions of this Roman Catholic Religion holiday were incorporated into\nand became \u201cAll Hallows Eve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here we are over one-thousand years later and every October\n31st is now known as \u201cHalloween.\u201d Some traditions have not changed since\nthe inception of this Celtic-pagan holiday, including fascination and\ncelebration of the dead. As the pagans of that time wore costumes commemorating\nthe dead and spirits, so also today, not only children dress in costumes of\ndead or (evil) spirits but adults do likewise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We like to think here in America that Halloween is an\ninnocent holiday where both children and adults dress in costumes (some\nfrightening, some funny) and go out to beg for candy. Sounds innocent enough,\nright? Truth be told, there is a very evil and sinister spirit behind celebrating\nthe dead. Modern day witches and Satanists consider Halloween their \u201chigh-holy\nday.\u201d Satanists often perform animal (and sometimes human) sacrifices on\nHalloween, and witches involve themselves in activities with hope to bring harm\nupon those they do not like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At nearly 60 years-old, I remember children who went \u201cTrick\nor Treating\u201d only to later bite into candy or apples with pins or razor blades\ninside. Today, children and their parents not only need to be concerned over\npins and razor blades, they also need to be concerned if THC (marijuana) candy\nwill be purposely placed in their Halloween bag by some sick person as well. Of\nall the special days where candy is given as gifts whether Christmas or Easter,\nI have never heard of a stranger sabotaging or poisoning candy–only on\nHalloween (See https:\/\/pix11.com\/2019\/10\/28\/bag-of-heroin-found-in-childs-candy-after-nj-halloween-event\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope (and pray!) no one will be hurt this coming Halloween\nbut in today\u2019s culture, evil abounds everywhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Paul Waldmiller Did you know that the modern-day Halloween holiday was originally celebrated as a Celtic pagan holiday? In the Eight Century AD, Pope Gregory III designated November 1st to… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}