Show I Origin of H Halloween Halloween or All 11 Hallows eve eye Is ie the name given to tu th the of October ns as the vigil of Hallowmas or All Saints day Though now known as ns little else but the eve e of the Christian f festival Halloween and Its formerly attendant ceremonies l long mg antedate Christianity The two to chief characteristics characteristics charac charae- of ancient Halloween were I the lighting of bonfires and the belief that of nil all nl nights In the year this is the one during which ghosts and witches ore are most likely to wander abroad About the first of November the flip Druids held their autumn festival and lighted fires In honor of the Sun Sun- god I In thanksgiving ln for the harvest The Druids also algo believed helle that on the thee eve e of f this fe festival Saman lord of death called together the wicked souls that within the past twelve months hall hail teen been condemned to Inhabit the j bodies hOllies of oC animals animals- On the Druid ceremonies cere cere- J monies were grafted some of the characteristics char char- j of the Roman noman festival in honor tumor of Pon ono 11 held 11 about the first j of November In which nuts and apples ap ap- ples vieR as os representing the winter store j of fruits pla played an un Important part eo |