Magical, Mystical Halloween

If you are wondering about the origins of Halloween, you
can find that there are many different stories and origins
of how the holiday started. Some say that it is a day of
Satan, or the worship of evil spirits and the practice of
witchcraft which they believe is Druid religion. There are
others who believe it was a day for the ghosts of the dead
to come back and settle the scores on people who had done
them wrong.

A few stories have been told about the spirits that had
past away the year before this night and they were coming
back in search of living bodies to possess in hopes of an
afterlife. I have heard myself that Halloween was a
European custom called All Souls Day, where early
Christians would travel to villages collecting cakes and
for every cake that they collected they would say a prayer
for the patrons lost loved ones. They believed this would
help the wondering souls enter into heaven.

There is the magic of the Jack-O-Lantern where the flame
that sits inside is supposed to scare away the evil for it
is afraid of being tricked. The ghost, goblins and witches
that most people would associate with evil were actually
thought of as the ones to scare the

Evil spirits away. They were believed to mingle with the
people on the eve of the New Year while the people also
wore masks and celebrated. When I think of a magical and
mystical Halloween, I think of some ghosts and goblins, but
I also think of fairies and pixies in a glen dancing,
singing, and glowing in the moonlight! Spreading their
wings in the fresh night air, afraid of nothing! Roaming in
their land playing little tricks on anyone they come
across. I think of the elves playing their music with
flutes and drums in the middle of a glen.

The current Halloween that we now celebrate is a mix of
ancient customs combine together through the years. The
majority of people in the here and now do not associate the
ancient beliefs with Halloween. We still think of ghosts
and goblins and witches, but generally we do not associate
Satan with Halloween. We are worried about what kind of
costumes our children are going to choose and if we are
going to buy them or make them.

We fret about where to find exactly what they want or what
we need to put the costumes together to have them look
their extreme best. On the whole, large numbers of children
really don't even like to dress up in scary costumes any
more. There are so many cartoons characters and fictional
story book characters or characters from movies that
children want to be they don't even think about the scary
part of it.

Today in the present time when you think or say Halloween
the first thing that pops into most adults and children's
minds is candy, and then I would say pumpkins. Children
think of fun and games at parties in a cool costume that
they get to show off once a year. After pondering the
ancient traditions of Halloween, I do not see much magic,
mystic, or evil in this particular holiday any more. I see
it as a chance for children to be something for one whole
day that they dream about being all year or when they grow
up. They get to bring home a big bag of candy and carve
faces in pumpkins. We as adults really don't explain the
original meaning of Halloween to them because we ourselves
do not celebrate it in the same manner as the ancient
people did, due to our beliefs changing.

Magical, Mystical Halloween
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