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I was under the impression that Nov. 1 was All Saints Day, and what we know now as Halloween, started (in the Catholic religion, anyway) as All Hallows Eve, the fasting before All Saints Day; before that, in the Drudic tradition, as Samhain, and the costumes were (symbolically) to scare the evil spirits away for another year, just as Beltane was a renewal of the bond between king and country, symbolized by the orgies and feasts. Though on the note that "If people would study history a little more the world would be a much better place", cnor, people twist history as they see fit, in their writings of it. If people studied the most objective, comprehensive version of history they could find, and realize that history repeats itself, then indeed, the world would be a better place.
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Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.
-- Robert Heinlein
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