Comments on: Happy Halloween 2008 http://yeinjee.com/2008/happy-halloween-2008/ Popular blog about Asian culture, lifestyle, entertainment, food, travel, trend, events, traditions and offbeat stuff. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:42:12 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: cole http://yeinjee.com/2008/happy-halloween-2008/#comment-6611 cole Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:52:16 +0000 http://yeinjee.com/?p=7674#comment-6611 Halloween originated from an old celtic festival. Started with the Irish. The gaelic pagans celebrated the season at end of the harvest, but Oct 31 was also regarded as a time when the boundary between the dead and the living dissapeared and the dead became dangerous to living people on earth. They used to build big bonfires and throw bones of slaughtered cows into the fires to scare away the dead as well as wearing costumes representing the evil spirits. Lots of old superstitions among people back in those days. Was reading recently about the witch hunts in Europe and early America. Especially in Germany. Back in those days people believed everything that happened... good or bad had some sort of spiritual reason., Back before science and the forces of nature were well understood, people constantly lived in fear of evil spirits and such. If disease struck a town it was some sort of curse. If a person went into convulsions for some reason or someone became mentally ill, it had to be evil spirits and possesion at work. Makes for good horror stories and movie ghosts stories today though. ;) Halloween originated from an old celtic festival. Started with the Irish. The gaelic pagans celebrated the season at end of the harvest, but Oct 31 was also regarded as a time when the boundary between the dead and the living dissapeared and the dead became dangerous to living people on earth. They used to build big bonfires and throw bones of slaughtered cows into the fires to scare away the dead as well as wearing costumes representing the evil spirits.

Lots of old superstitions among people back in those days. Was reading recently about the witch hunts in Europe and early America. Especially in Germany. Back in those days people believed everything that happened… good or bad had some sort of spiritual reason., Back before science and the forces of nature were well understood, people constantly lived in fear of evil spirits and such. If disease struck a town it was some sort of curse. If a person went into convulsions for some reason or someone became mentally ill, it had to be evil spirits and possesion at work.

Makes for good horror stories and movie ghosts stories today though. ;)

]]> By: bb http://yeinjee.com/2008/happy-halloween-2008/#comment-6577 bb Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:08:37 +0000 http://yeinjee.com/?p=7674#comment-6577 i want to go get free candy too, but 18 is kind of old. i guess i'm just gonna stay home and pass out candy. =( i want to go get free candy too, but 18 is kind of old.
i guess i’m just gonna stay home and pass out candy. =(

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