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  • Halloween Reads: Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton

    Halloween Reads: Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton

    Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton Published: Reaktion Books; Illustrated edition (Sept. 12 2019) Publisher Synopsis: Halloween has spread around the world, yet its associations with death and the supernatural as well as its inevitable commercialization have made it one of our most puzzling holidays. How did it become what it…

  • 31 Days of Halloween: The End of Summer

    Media has exploited the celebrations of Samhain and taken us far away from its roots. There is no Lord of the Dead nor any deity ruling over Halloween. Samhain (pronounced sow-in) translates to End of Summer. Not quite as exciting huh? It is quite shocking how many major motion pictures and television shows have completely…

  • 31 Days of Halloween: Divinations

    31 Days of Halloween: Divinations

    Looking into a well on Halloween night was another way to see the future for the next 12 months.

  • 31 Days of Halloween: 5 Divinations To Practice This Halloween

    31 Days of Halloween: 5 Divinations To Practice This Halloween

    COVID precautions may be keeping us home this Halloween, but they don’t have to stop you from celebrating. Here is a list of classic Divinations to try your hand at this Halloween with your cohorts.

  • 31 Days Of Halloween: Apple Divinations

    31 Days Of Halloween: Apple Divinations

    Apple Divinations “In old England, apples and nuts were seen as powerful prognosticators. Celtic folk used them in their Halloween divination games for centuries, and there were some Scottish, Irish and British men and women–people from the northern parts of England–still celebrating All Hallows with apples and nuts throughout the heyday of Guy Fawkes…The night…