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2007-10-04 18:34:31 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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2007-10-04 19:53:55 · answer #1 · answered by aisha 5 · 0 0

Traditionally Samhain aka Halloween marks the thinning of herds for meat, laying-in of firewood, the last harvest and the gleaning of the fields. Whatever remains to prepare for winter. Sometimes they would let poor people go through the fields and pick up what's left. It's a celebration to mark the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter weather, with prayers to see them through the cold season.

It is also the day on which the barrier between life and death is the thinnest (think of fall as life and winter as death). The spirits need to be appeased should they want to cross the barrier back to the living world, or sent back to where they belong. This is done with harvest offerings.

Samhain/Halloween is the third of three harvest festivals/holidays. The first is Lughnasadh, the celebration of the Celtic Pagan god Lugh, the god of the sun and agriculture. It's the first of three Celtic harvest festivals. When you think about the harvest, this is the grain festival.

The second harvest festival is fall equinox. In the U.S., it would be celebrating the harvest of fruits and vegetables such as apples, pumpkins, nuts and grapes.

2007-10-05 01:44:56 · answer #2 · answered by Arwen 6 · 1 0

Grandma Got Run Over by A Witch
(tune: "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer")

Grandma got ran over by a broomstick
Walking home from our house Halloween
Now you can say there's no such thing as witches
But as for me and grandpa, we believe.

She'd consumed too many spirits
And we begged her not to go
But she'd forgot her Belladonna,
So she sacheted out the door, we didn't know.

When they found her the next morning
At the scene of the attack
She had bristles on her forehead,
And incriminating brush marks on her back.

Grandma got ran over by a broomstick
Walking home from our house Halloween
You can say there's no such thing as witches,
But as for me and grandpa, we believe.

Now we're all so proud of grandpa
He's been taking it so well
See him in there watching wrestling,
Drinking wine and dancing skyclad with cousin Nell.

It's not Samhain without grandma
She's the one with the big hat
And we just can't help but wonder,
Should we divvy up her candy, or send it back.

Grandma got ran over by a broomstick,
Walking home from our house Halloween
You can say there's no such thing as witches
But as for me and grandpa, we believe.

Now the punch is on the table,
And the pumpkin, it's so big
And the black and silver candles
That would just have matched the hair in grandma's wig.

I've warned all my friends and neighbors,
Better watch out for yourselves
They should never give a license,
To a gal who flies a broomstick deosil.

Grandma got ran over by a broomstick,
Walking home from our house Halloween
You can sat there's no such thing as witches,
But as for me and grandpa, we believe.
Blessed Be
Ariel

2007-10-05 02:14:13 · answer #3 · answered by *~Ariel Brigalow Moondust~* 6 · 0 0

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