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by Kelley Ruth Edna

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This is fascinating book which would be interesting both for children and for adults who still remember the holiday of Halloween and its attributes like carved pumpkins with candles inside, jack-lanterns, changing clothes, witches and everything like that. Ruth Edna Kelley describes the origins of the modern holiday of Halloween which can be found in the religious and cultural traditions of the ancient tribes including Celts, Irish, Scots, Welsh, Britons and Germans. The author also studies the development of Halloween in the 19th and 20th century and the role in plays in the life of Americans and other people in the world. The book also contains Halloween poems, games and fortune-telling.

ISBN: 1430327510

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...was rendered them fortheir aid to the harvest. An offering of first-fruits was made inAugust; in November the winter store of nuts and apples was opened. The horses released from toil contended in races. From Pomona's festival nuts and apples, from the Druidic Samhainthe supernatural element, combined to give later generations thecharms and omens from nuts and apples which are made trial of atHallowe'en. CHAPTER VTHE COMING OF CHRISTIANITY. ALL SAINTS'. ALL SOULS'The great power which the Druids exercised over their peopleinterfered with the Roman rule of Britain. Converts were being madeat Rome. Augustus forbade Romans to became initiated, Tiberiusbanished the priestly clan and their adherents from Gaul, andClaudius utterly stamped out the belief there, and put to death aRoman knight for wearing the serpent's-egg badge to win a lawsuit. Forbidden to practise their rites in Britain, the Druids fled tothe isle of Mona, near the coast of Wales. The Romans pursued them, and in 61 A. D....