What is the Christian history of Halloween?
Christian History of Halloween The Origins Halloween began to evolve as early as AD 270 from the Celts culture in Ireland who practiced a special costume party event the night before their annual feast of Samhain, which had a two-fold purpose. The feast was not only a memorial to commemorate their deceased relatives but also a thanksgiving to close the end of the summer season of light and to prepare diligently for entering into the darkness of the long winter season. Superstition has it that the “eve” before the feast was then a time to ward off any evil spirits which they believed were cast out or released from the spirit world realm into their physical world and who would come to attack the feast celebration. Believing that demons, witches, and hobgoblins were real and existed, October 31 then became an annual costume event to try through disguised appearance fool the evil spirits into thinking they were not humans to be harmed. The Druids, who were the Celts ruling class, required
