Word: halloween
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...holiday was appropriated a second time into secular American culture. Scottish and Irish immigrants brought the practices and observances of All Hallows' to the New World, and gradually it began to take on its rather innocent appearance. Today, of course, Halloween is a time for games, parties, trick-or-treating and watching horror movies (although rarely "scary" movies). Or is it? When we look at it closely, is there not something more to Halloween even today...
...small child notices that beneath all the fun spookiness of the day there lies something deeper (and perhaps darker). There must, after all, be a reason why the holiday has been so enthusiastically appropriated by secular, mainstream culture. Bobbing for apples is fun, but it's not that fun. Halloween has such staying power because secular America gets many of the same things out of the holiday that the Celts and Medieval Christians did so many years ago. Halloween the popular celebration is a comforting, attractive gloss on the subject matter that lies at its core. Even for us "moderns...
...Halloween lets us off easy, but it should not be underestimated--it serves a real function. Not surprisingly, Edgar Allen Poe, the patron saint of Halloween, captured the spirit of this enigmatic holiday best in one of his early poems: "Thy soul shall find itself alone/'Mid dark thoughts of the gray tomb-stone." I hope you all had a good...
...tunnels of Adams House filled with mad surgeons, disembodied heads and dozens of elementary school children on Friday for the annual Halloween Haunted House...
...event also featured a Halloween party, arts and crafts, a fortune teller, a magic show and trick-or-treating...