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| morlan75 |
SamhainHalloween celebrations started with the Celtic Druids apparently around 700BC. They believed that the souls of the dead returned back to inhabit bodies of the living. They thought this happened every year on October 31st. People wore masks and costumes and paraded to keep out those spirits out from their villages. I'm not laughing at the above belefs as some may know me & Rich are Pagan and every year celibrate Samhain (Sow -In)
Samhain is one of the eight solar holidays or sabbats of paganism, it is celebrated in our hemisphere on October 31st. The holiday, with Beltane is one of the most popular among Neopagans / pagans it is the last of the harvest festivals in some traditions it symbolizes the death of the old god. I choose every year to honour and rember "Our" dead by normally making small boats and casting them off into the Sea or Stream nearby with posative and rembering thoughts, then lighting a candle each on our alter 
The americans have in some way to my mind turned Halloween into abit of a commercial "Party" 
Every year I get really excited to the build up and on the 31st of October, personnaly more than "Christmas" Samhain / Halloween is a time for fun and awareness Mother Nature exists in my mind
Heres a few easy Pumpkin Lantern patterns I've found to deter ghost's nd ghoulies from your front door the 31st 
Blessed Be Jeni & Richie xxx http://painting.about.com/od/freestencils/a/stencil_hallown.htm 
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| Libby |
thats really interesting thank you
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