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Archways is a podcast for learning history! We offer a classical perspective to history, believing that Western Civilization's future success hinges on helping everyone understand our Judeo-Christian heritage: the events, ideas, and people who worked to build it and ensure its success. But we will also be seeing what we can learn from other parts of the world as well.
History of Halloween: What do ghosts, candy, costumes and pumpkins have to do with each other?
Archways: Western Civilization History Podcast
14 minutes 49 seconds
2 years ago
History of Halloween: What do ghosts, candy, costumes and pumpkins have to do with each other?
In this episode learn about Halloween's spooky origins as Samhain, an October 31st Celtic harvest festival featuring all the scariest things: mischievous fairies, ghosts, and taxes! Then learn how All Saints Day and All Souls Day got moved to this time of the year fusing them inextricably with the Celtic traditions resulting in new rituals like wearing white bedsheets and calling yourself a ghost, trick-or-treating, and turnip -carving. Finally, learn how these traditions were exported into America and forever changed into the pumpkin-obsessed candy-filled 12 billion dollar holiday we know and love today.
Sources:
https://time.com/5434659/halloween-pagan-origins-in-samhain/
https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/13things/7448.html
https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/samhain
Archways: Western Civilization History Podcast
Archways is a podcast for learning history! We offer a classical perspective to history, believing that Western Civilization's future success hinges on helping everyone understand our Judeo-Christian heritage: the events, ideas, and people who worked to build it and ensure its success. But we will also be seeing what we can learn from other parts of the world as well.
