Talk:Halloween
[edit] Urban legends
Anyone want to help fleshing out a "fundie urban legends" section? I'm particularly interested in covering how the idea of a death god named Samhain developed. Religious Tolerance has a pretty good overview to start from. Balaam (talk) 17:09, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
- Snopes or Wiki it first. I also have an awesome folklorist as a professor here, but I don't have any good contact information I can throw around, sorry. Osaka Sun (talk) 18:27, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Muslims Against Crusades
Well, this is an interesting twist on the same old hooey: Islamic fundies against Halloween!
| In 21st century GB (Ghastly Britain) pagan pilgrims are about to embark on an annual celebration which stems from backwardness, ignorance and prehistoric thinking. The evil theme of this corrupt activity is based around darkness, devilish dares, death-camps, demons, destruction, dread and druids. How thick or peat can one stoop to? Lowering the intellect to blindly following something that has polytheistic origins, all in the name of fun, happiness and jokes. These realities should not surprise us at all considering most of the nation’s IQ (internal quibbling) is conned into idolising the likes of Batman, Spiderman and Superman, covertly done in the name of selling satanic superstitious slogans to the sleepy (masses).
31st October is the night of mischief, legalised by the highest symbol of this anglo-saxon authority HRM - Her Robbing Monopolising Queen Elizabeth of Englutland; her loyal heathenist’s will pay homage to the ghosts, witches and fairies who will be working overtime on this “infernal” night. |
Hmm. Seems to have been written by a drunkard. Balaam (talk) 18:47, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Associated with the dead and Samhain (the festival, not the god)
I thought it was associated with the dead because Halloween traces much of its origins to Samhain, a holiday in which The souls of the dead were also thought to revisit their homes. Feasts were had, at which the souls of dead kin were beckoned to attend and a place set at the table for them.[wp] I know that religions sometimes absorb each other (or at least did in the past), and that this went for holidays as well. Do you think it is likely its association with the dead started from 2 different holidays before they merged? -- Corpse in the bed (talk) 12:52, 2 August 2014 (UTC)