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"UlricKastle's Halloween Tale"

The ghosts and goblins are in hiding! Be sure to check back as halloween nears to visit this spooky site! Beware, they are SLOwLy coming out!

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About Halloween...

Halloween can also be called the Christian feast of Hallowmas, Allhallows, or All Saints day. Halloween is connected all the way back to the ancient druids. The Druids believed that on this evening the lord of the dead called upon hosts for evil spirits. The Druids would then light fires on Halloween night for the purpose of warding off these evil spirits.

The ancient Celts believed that Halloween was the last evening of the year and people of this time would examine portents for the future. The Celts also believed that the spirits of the dead also revisited their homes as well on the night of Halloween.

When the Romans conquered Britain they added Halloween to the Roman harvest festival on November first. The Celtic tradition of lighting fires on Halloween has survived until modern times (in Scotland and Wales) and even the concept of ghosts and witches connected to Halloween is still common. Even the Roman harvest festival traditions are still used today. Like dunking for apples in a tub of water and carving out faces on jack-0-lanterns and placing candles in them.The idea coming from leaving a candle in the jack-o-lantern for lost souls. Halloween being the night where the viel between the dead and the living is the thinest.

The idea of wearing costumes and doing more of the 'modern' activties came about during the twentieth century. Turnips turned into the use of pumpkins then later carving into jack o lanterns. The idea of wearing scary costumes or masks came from the Celtics who wore them to scare away food scavengers and hunters turned into what is widely known today as wearing halloween costumes.(Popular costumes include ghosts, witches, vampires and other things associated with halloween). And the idea of leaving food behind, or feeding the young ones turned into 'trick or treating.'

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"A Halloween Tale..." An original by: Baron Ulrick, Copyright ©2000.

In to the woods and throughout all the trees, the sounds of the forest cannot be seen. And all through the night, concealed and hidden from sight, the spooks and goblins will give you a fright..

Still, deeper within the forest you go, the howling of wind, ghosts and creatures will surely grow. Trolls and monsters can be hard to resist, for all are within the weaving mist...

Ghastly ghouls and witches brews, casting their haunting spells and tricks on you. They arrive with a grisly fright on Halloween night, and leave with despite by the dawns early light...BOOoooooo!OOOoooooo!

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Here Be Some Goulish Halloween Links!

Pathways Haunted Hallway! Sharon's Haunted House! House of Halloween!

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