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2. Everything To Know About the History of Halloween ... - AOL

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   The night before All Saint’s Day came to be known as All-Hallowmas, then All Hallows Eve, and eventually Halloween. Related: 48+ Easy DIY Halloween Decorations to Get Your Ghoul On

3. Halloween - Wikipedia

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   Halloween, or Hallowe'en [7] [8] (less commonly known as Allhalloween, [9] All Hallows' Eve, [10] or All Saints' Eve), [11] is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.

4. All Hallows' Eve (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Glen Cavaliero has stated that the novels of Charles Williams, of which All Hallows' Eve is the last, move towards "an ever more perfect fusion of natural with supernatural". [5] The magical ceremonies that are meticulously described play a leading role in the plot's development and are not all the product of the author's imagination. T. S.

5. Samhain - Wikipedia

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   Samhain (/ ˈ s ɑː w ɪ n / SAH-win, / ˈ s aʊ ɪ n / SOW-in, Irish: [ˈsˠəunʲ], Scottish Gaelic: [ˈs̪ãũ.ɪɲ]) or Sauin (Manx: [ˈsoːɪnʲ]) is a Gaelic festival on 1 November marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year. [1]

6. Stingy Jack - Wikipedia

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   Stingy Jack O'Lantern, also known as Jack the Smith, Drunk Jack, Flaky Jack or Jack-o'-lantern, is a mythical character sometimes associated with All Hallows Eve while also acting as the mascot of the holiday. The "jack-o'-lantern" may be derived from the character. [1]

7. Allhallowtide - Wikipedia

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   The Church Militant and the Church Triumphant, fresco by Andrea da Firenze in Santa Maria Novella, c. 1365. Allhallowtide, [1] Hallowtide, [2] Allsaintstide, [3] or the Hallowmas season [4] [5] is the Western Christian season encompassing the triduum of All Saints' Eve (), All Saints' Day (All Hallows') and All Souls' Day, [6] [7] [8] as well as the International Day of Prayer for the ...

8. St. Martin's Day - Wikipedia

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   St Martin's Day Kermis by Peeter Baltens (16th century), shows peasants celebrating by drinking the first wine of the season, and a horseman representing the saint. Saint Martin's Day or Martinmas (obsolete: Martlemas), [1] [2] and historically called Old Halloween [A] or All Hallows Eve, [B] [3] [4] is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours and is celebrated in the liturgical year on 11 November.

9. Soul cake - Wikipedia

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   [28] [29] In Staffordshire, the "custom of Souling was kept on All Saints' Eve" (halloween). [15] Similarly in Shropshire, during the late 19th century, "there was set upon the board at All Hallows Eve a high heap of Soul-cakes" for visitors to take. [30] The songs sung by people in Oswestry (Shropshire), which borders Wales, contained some ...