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Should I allow my child to carve a jack-o-lantern for Halloween?by Rabbi Moshe Miller
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Halloween
Posted by: Christy, Jacksonville, FL on Jan 22, 2006
hallowe'en = samhain which was the celtic new year
Posted by: Anonymous, Ottawa, Canada on Jan 07, 2007
Hallow'en is a contraction of All Hallows Eve, the day before All Hallows, or All Saints Day, followed by All Souls Day. Catholic & Anglicans (not Protestants), pray for the souls of the dead on the 3 days.
The Celts believed the 'veil' separating the earthly world and the world of the spirits and the dead was thin @ Samhain so spirits of all kinds might 'cross over' to the land of the living. Hollowed out turnips with faces carved in them had a candle placed inside to scare the bad spirits away. They also comemmorated the dead.