In need to post the actual sam hain feast .
It's nothing like Halloween .
One doesn't think that during Halloween kids gather at a bonfire and offer
Halloween came out of Samhain , from your link . Costumes , door to door for food , TRICKS , pranks .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain
Hutton writes: "When imitating malignant spirits it was a very short step from guising to playing pranks". Playing pranks at Samhain is recorded in the Scottish Highlands as far back as 1736 and was also common in Ireland, which led to Samhain being nicknamed "Mischief Night" in some parts.
[86] Wearing costumes at Halloween spread to England in the 20th century, as did the custom of playing pranks, though there had been mumming at other festivals.
[86] At the time of mass transatlantic Irish and Scottish immigration, which popularised Halloween in North America, Halloween in Ireland and Scotland had a strong tradition of guising and pranks.
[95] Trick-or-treating may have come from the custom of going door-to-door collecting food for Samhain feasts, fuel for Samhain bonfires and/or offerings for the
aos sí. Alternatively, it may have come from the Allhallowtide custom of collecting
soul cakes.[
citation needed]
Modern ones ,it's done .I served with a wiccan
Halloween came out of Samhain , from your link . Costumes , door to door for food , TRICKS , pranks .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain
Hutton writes: "When imitating malignant spirits it was a very short step from guising to playing pranks". Playing pranks at Samhain is recorded in the Scottish Highlands as far back as 1736 and was also common in Ireland, which led to Samhain being nicknamed "Mischief Night" in some parts.
[86] Wearing costumes at Halloween spread to England in the 20th century, as did the custom of playing pranks, though there had been mumming at other festivals.
[86] At the time of mass transatlantic Irish and Scottish immigration, which popularised Halloween in North America, Halloween in Ireland and Scotland had a strong tradition of guising and pranks.
[95] Trick-or-treating may have come from the custom of going door-to-door collecting food for Samhain feasts, fuel for Samhain bonfires and/or offerings for the
aos sí. Alternatively, it may have come from the Allhallowtide custom of collecting
soul cakes.[
citation needed]
So In your view .it's a sin for a kid to splay with you guns and use a cammo gauge uniform .
I was building forts and doing all that .
Wearing a custome and pretending is the same thing.
Modern versions in that don't involve custoumes at all.i serve with a wiccan and he said he doesn't .
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Modern paganism
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See also: Wheel of the Year
Neopagans celebrating Samhain around a bonfire
Samhain and Samhain-based festivals are held by some Neopagans. As there are many kinds of Neopaganism, their Samhain celebrations can be very different despite the shared name. Some try to emulate the historic festival as much as possible. Other Neopagans base their celebrations on sundry unrelated sources, Gaelic culture being only one of the sources.[8][114][115] Folklorist Jenny Butler[116] describes how Irish pagans pick some elements of historic Samhain celebrations and meld them with references to the Celtic past, making a new festival of Samhain that is inimitably part of neo-pagan culture.
Neopagans usually celebrate Samhain on 31 October–1 November in the Northern Hemisphere and 30 April–1 May in the Southern Hemisphere, beginning and ending at sundown.[117][118][119][120] Some Neopagans celebrate it at the astronomical midpoint between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice (or the full moon nearest this point), which is usually around 6 or 7 November in the Northern hemisphere.[121]
Celtic Reconstructionism
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Like other Reconstructionist traditions, Celtic Reconstructionist Pagans (CRs) emphasize historical accuracy. They base their celebrations and rituals on traditional lore as well as research into the beliefs of the polytheistic Celts.[115][122] They celebrate Samhain around 1 November, but may adjust the date to suit their regional climate, such as when the first winter frost arrives.[123] Their traditions include saining the home and lighting bonfires.[123] Some follow the old tradition of building two bonfires, which celebrants and animals then pass between as a ritual of purification.[3][57] For CRs, it is a time when the dead are especially honoured. Though CRs make offerings at all times of year, Samhain is a time when more elaborate offerings are made to specific ancestors.[123] This may involve making a small altar or shrine. They often have a meal, where a place for the dead is set at the table and they are invited to join. An untouched portion of food and drink is then left outside as an offering. Traditional tales may be told and traditional songs, poems, and dances performed. A western-facing door or window may be opened and a candle left burning on the windowsill to guide the dead home. Divination for the coming year is often done, whether in all solemnity or as games. The more mystically inclined may also see this as a time for deeply communing with their deities, especially those seen as being particularly linked with this festival.[3][57][115][122][123]
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Wiccans celebrate a variation of Samhain as one of their yearly Sabbats of the Wheel of the Year. It is deemed by most Wiccans to be the most important of the four "greater Sabbats". Samhain is seen by some Wiccans as a time to celebrate the lives of those who have died, and it often involves paying respect to ancestors, family members, elders of the faith, friends, pets, and other loved ones who have died. In some rituals the spirits of the dead are invited to attend the festivities. It is seen as a festival of darkness, which is balanced at the opposite point of the wheel by the spring festival of Beltane, which Wiccans celebrate as a festival of light and fertility.[124] Wiccans believe that at Samhain the veil between this world and the afterlife is at its thinnest point of the whole year, making it easier to communicate with those who have left this world.[125]
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Kids dressing up arent doing that .
Look no one here in this thread has to my knowledge lived as a jw .no birthdays ,easy ,Not even thanksgiving,no Christmas,no new years or birthdays .no music from sinful stations and at times no cartoons with violence ,not even warner brothers !
So please .I know where this leads and the line becomes arbitrary.
I can play football.right dig into that and it's can be sinful too .I remember how the argument was as long as it's not competition .
