What is holloween, what does it mean?

Answer 1

Is Halloween Harmless Fun?

Have you ever wondered WHY you do the things you do - WHY people celebrate death, demons, Satan, witches, ghouls, monsters, ghosts, goblins, poltergeists, skulls and skeletons, spells, the occult, spooks, creeps, black cats, jack o' lanterns and Samhain, "Lord of the dead"?

"Oh, it's just harmless fun!" they say.

First, though, about that apostrophe. Most people spell it "Halloween," dropping the apostrophe. The apostrophe belongs there, because the word comes from two words, "Hallowed evening," or "The Evening of All Hallows," or "all saints." You see, the ancient Roman Catholic Church "canonized" hundreds of "saints." Actually, the term means nothing more than any person who is a Christian; in the Bible, all Christians are called "saints," but the term was perverted by ancient clerics to mean a really specially RIGHTEOUS Christian; an elevated rank of "holiness" that was usually never conferred or recognized until after the death of the so-called saint. Each saint was given a day; or the day was named after the saint. Many Catholics do not celebrate their own birthday, but the day of the birth of the "saint" after which they may have been named. When the calendar finally filled up (for example, Pope John Paul II has "canonized" 280 people as "saints" during his reign alone), and there were no more days which could be named after "saints," the Catholic church decided to pick a day which was already widely known, and celebrated, as a special harvest festival to the pagan god of fruits and nuts, Pomona, which fell on November 1st. This was common practice - to select a date on the pagan calendar which was already a well-known pagan celebration, and then "adapt" to it some alleged "Christian" custom, which pagans could readily accept.

That day became "All Saints Day," or the day of "All Hallows."



But back then, just as in the Hebrew calendar of today, the days began at the previous sunset. So the "evening," or the beginning of "All Saints Day" became the "Evening of all hallows," or, for short, "Hallowe'en." The apostrophe has been dropped in recent times.

Why do many Baptists, Methodists, or Episcopalians celebrate purely Catholic customs, which antedate Christianity itself by thousands of years? To most, it simply does not make any difference. Millions see no harm in cavorting about dressed like a demon, or a mummy, or a skeleton; see no harm in celebrating so-called "Christian" holidays with all the accoutrements of paganism. One might as well ask why people keep Christmas, with its symbols of tree worship, eggs and orbs, the holly wreath and mistletoe. Actually the Word of God condemns both.

Hallowe'en has its origins in purely pagan mythology. No wonder it is the most important day to Satanists and those dabbling in the occult. First, it is based entirely on the notion that Satan, or "Samhain," as the pagan Druids called him, who was "Lord of the dead," and who had consigned the "departed souls" of the loved ones of the celebrants to inhabit, say, the body of a mouse or a rat during the past year, could be induced into giving the soul of the loved one a "lighter sentence" in the ensuing year, say, in the body of a cat!

Since the Druids taught that the night of the eve of Pomona, or Hallowe'en, was the one night of the year when spooks, goblins, demons, ghosts, ogres, poltergeists, witches and the like were most likely out and about, they sought to spook them away by lighting "bonfires" (the "bon" in "bonfire" just as in "hot cross bun" comes from bous originally; Horus, or Nimrod - the sun god), or by carving a leering face in a pumpkin, placing a lighted candle inside, and placing it in a window. Offerings of food were left outside, hoping to placate wandering demons.

So, today, "Christian" people allow their children to dress up like any of the hideous caricatures of demons (or perhaps a famous person or Hollywood star), and act out the parts of the demons by chirping "trick or treat" to residents in their homes. The vernacular is "Pony up, or I wreck the joint!" Thus, children are taught extortion and blackmail at a very early age; the childish "protection" racket is alive and well.

In past years, parents have been warned to carefully inspect the "treats." Demonic, calloused individuals have placed needles and razor blades inside of apples; have put LSD or "angel's dust," powerful hallucinogens which are capable of destroying brain cells, in candy; have even laced candy with arsenic or strychnine.

Recently, a nurse working in a Nashville hospital said kids were going to ever more bizarre extremes in order to "feel the thrill" of Hallowe'en. Throwing rolls of toilet paper into a neighbor's trees, defacing homes with spray paint, or setting fires was not enough. Now, the kids are deciding to get serious. Commenting on how hospitals see more admissions over Hallowe'en because of "devil-worship kind of activities," she said "You see cases of self-mutilation, particularly newcomers to the occult who have participated in some kind of initiation."

Perhaps many have forgotten the kidnap-murder of several students who ventured into northern Mexico some years ago - Satanists had used them as victims in their satanic rituals. Horror stories of animal evisceration and even human sacrifice have hit the news in recent times.

So why do professing "Christian" people indulge in such a ghoulish, obviously pagan practice? Actually, most excuse it as "just harmless fun," and justify festooning their homes with symbols of devils and demons on the basis of culture - isn't everyone doing it?

In his book, Hallowe'en Through Twenty Centuries, Ralph Linton said,

"The American celebration rests upon Scottish and Irish folk customs which can be traced in direct line from pre-Christian times. Although Halloween (sic) has become a night of rollicking fun, superstitious spells, and eerie games which people take only half seriously, its beginnings were quite otherwise. The earliest Halloween (sic) celebrations were held by the Druids in honor of Samhain, [Satan] lord of the dead, whose festival fell on November 1st" (Ibid. p. 4).

God commands His people,

"There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer [one who supposedly foretells the future by consulting with the dead]. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord..." (Deut. 18:10-12).


God tells us:

"Learn NOT the way of the heathen. . . Come out from among them, and be ye separate . . . Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him " (I John 2:15).

No true Christian with common sense, and a desire to OBEY God, would ever be involved in a hideous "celebration" of Satan, demons, witches, and death. Of course, if there is no God, it doesn't make any difference. But God does exist, and God clearly labels indulging in such demonic, evil, Satanic practices as a heinous sin.

No wonder Hallowe'en is the most important day of the year to the various Satanist organizations in the U.S. and around the world. Witches gather in their "covens"; animal eviscerations occur, and, horribly, it is known that some kidnapped children have been used as human sacrifices by devil worshipers.

Hallowe'en is condemned by God, :NoNo: and should be avoided by anyone who truly believes in the sacred Word of God, and who worships Jesus Christ as the Savior.

Answer 2

Halloween (IPA pronunciation: [hælə'win], [hælo'win]) is an observance celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets. It is celebrated in much of the Western world, though most common in Canada, the United States, Puerto Rico, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and with increasing popularity in Australia and New Zealand. Halloween originated in Ireland as the pagan Celtic harvest festival, Samhain. Irish, Scots and other immigrants brought older versions of the tradition to North America in the 19th century. Most other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late 20th century.

The term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening before "All Hallows' Day"(also known as "All Saints' Day"). In Ireland, the name was All Hallows' Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve), and though seldomly used today, it is still a well accepted label. Halloween was also sometimes called All Saints' Eve. The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European pagan traditions, until it was appropriated by Christian missionaries and given a Christian interpretation. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit.

Halloween is sometimes associated with the occult. Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when the spiritual world can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent (e.g. Catalan mythology about witches).

Answer 3

Halloween, or Samhain, is the time when the veil between the physical world and the spiritual world is thinnest. Seances are held on this night because it is easier to contact the departed. This is the night pagans honor those who have passed on. The Catholic church changed it to All Saints Day (Nov 1st) to honor the saints (See, still honoring the dead). In Mexico, it is called The Day of the Dead (La dia de los Muertos).

Answer 4

Okay! A lot of people say it's the devils Birthday ,but I don't think so. I think it's when kids or even Adults dress up and act like someone their not. It's like a day that you can be a fake and not being judges or picked on because it's not the real you.

Answer 5

Try this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

Answer 6

halloween is short for hallows eve which is shor for all hallows even. which means day before all sainst day. as for what halloween is it is the best holiday ever!

Answer 7

Hallow's eve. If you supported the pagans, you put a pumpkin out on your doorstep. If you supported scientologist, you put a bag of money on your doorstep.

Answer 8

Nowadays when they speak to us of “Halloween” we thought about a celebration with subject related to the demon, monsters, magic, candies, disguises and without I number of other things. But in truth as they will be the origins of this celebration and it is related to the Christianity.


The origins but deep of this festividad come from the old tribes celtas who were in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. For celtas first of November it was the beginning of a new year and celebrated the festival of “Samahain”, gentleman of deads. During this festival celtas thought that the souls of deads returned to the Earth with the alive ones. In order to frighten malignant spirits, the people used you chewed and caught giants bonfires.


But in where this the Christian aspect in all this?perhaps, they are asked. In year 835, the Pope Gregorio IV moved the celebration of all the saints of May 13 to 1ro. of November and I name the previous night “All Hallow' s Eve”, or as “Halloween” is known today, that means the eve santa. In November 2 the day of the died souls is celebrated or.


The intention of these celebrations is to remember those that are dead, are those that officially are recognized by the Church like saints or no. It is a celebration of the “comunión of the saints”.


Now they were asked that it is the comunión of the saints. The catechism of the Catholic Church says that it is the connection and communication that exists between that they are in the sky, those that they are in purgatorio and those that we are here in the Earth. It is union that is produced by the love of Mr. Jesus as the death is greater than.


This union does not happen as we see in the films, that it appears to us a ghost and we began to speak with, but happens in which we do every day. In the ORATION. When the saints in the sky interyield by us and we requested by the intercession of which they are in purgatorio. It is an interchange of intentions good mutually between alive and died.


Now you can understand better the origins of this celebration and the true meaning. But also now you are thinking that it thinks the church on the things that nowadays relate such as the devil, ghosts and magic.


He is natural to explore the supernatural thing, specially in youth. After all, we also have a spiritual soul like a body. Now it is the time normal to question to us on God, the spiritual world and the life after the death.


But like everything, there is a correct way and an incorrect one. The Church does not want that one grows with an exaggerated fear nor a bad curiosity of her.

The first subject that I want to comment to them is the one of the devil. The Church if it believes in which the devil exists but is smaller and the opposed thing of God, that is to say, that is no power that can before putting itself to the one of God. For that reason no baptized person must be scared to him to the devil.


But that then says of the exorcism? The church if it provides the exorcism. Although it is of the last options. In this process it is the formal extraction of the demon, presided over solely by a monk with the approval of the bishop. This is not taken to joke since struggling with the true one badly.


In September of the 2000 Pope I make an exorcism to a young person in the seat of san Pedro. Definitive mind was not so sensational as if outside a film of Hollywood. Simply the gold with authority on her, commanding to the demon who fence itself. Most of the people who happened that way nor they gave account of which it had happened.


Changing another subject, now it will speak to them on if a person really can see the future. The Church yes says that, since to our history this flood of prophets and saints who have seen the future.


In the 500, san Benedicto had a vision of when her sister died saw raise her spirit the sky. Here we see an example of a vision that has had east santo.


Entering another subject, The Church believes in the ghosts? If you think about a ghost that is like a savannah, definitively that no. But you talk about the spiritual soul that continues living after our body dies, because yes


These are not angels but souls of people like the one of us who will live for always. Until for when the end of the times we receive our glorified body.


Good in short paragraphs we have seen some subjects more showy than the celebration of Halloween and power are related to to include/understand better this celebration. That it is not a satanic celebration, as many think, or to scare and to do of hers, since many it does, or simply to gather candies. But it is a celebration with after religious winches and very ample and interesting subjects including/understanding of which one thought.