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【正文】 people. halloween was also sometimes called all saints39。ca, a mischievous spirit. in australia it is sometimes referred to as mischief night, by locals. halloween is sometimes associated with the occult. many european cultural traditions hold that halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when the spiritual world can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent (. catalan mythology about witches). halloween is an annual celebration, but just what is it actually a celebration of? and how did this peculiar custom originate? is it, as some claim, a kind of demon worship? or is it just a harmless vestige of some ancient pagan ritual? the word itself, halloween, actually has its origins in the catholic church. it es from a contracted corruption of all hallows eve. november 1, all hollows day (or all saints day), is a catholic day of observance in honor of saints. but, in the 5th century bc, in celtic ireland, summer officially ended on october 31. the holiday was called samhain (sowen), the celtic new year. one story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceding year would e back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year. it was believed to be their only hope for the afterlife. the celts believed all laws of space and time were suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with the living. naturally, the stillliving did not want to be possessed. so on the night of october 31, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable. they would then dress up in all manner of ghoulish costumes and noisily paraded around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to possess. probably a better explanation of why the celts extinguished their fires was not to discourage spir
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