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Show ! Back to Days of the Druids and 03d Rome Hallowe'en. Hallowe'en or All Hal- J low Even Is the eve or vlrgil of All I Hallows or All Saints' Day. Nov. 1. But it antedati s christian times. i tin Nov. l tho Romans had a ff-ast to Pomona, goddess of fruits and seeds. THANKS FOR HARVEST. On the same date, or thereabout, the Druids held their autumn festival festi-val to the sun, giving thanks for tho season's harvest And they taught that, the night before, Saman. lord of death, called together the wicked souls he ha.I condemned to occupy animals' bodies I during the year. It was then that. 1 by Kifts and Incantations, he might bo Induced to release these captives, November, too. was one of the times for these same Druids to rekindle re-kindle tlurr sUnnosedlv sacrnl flre Ifowiver. to- superstitions of pagans pa-gans an I Christians alike ;ipr. tliat the night of October 31. of aM nights in th year, was tho time when supernatural super-natural Influences were strongest. I I n;l RQM rtts AJlRo M Wraiths of the dead. It was loner believed, wandered abroad on this night, together with witches, devils and mischief-making sprites- and 1 elves, and in some cases the spirits of living persons were aide to leave thplr bodies temporarily, to join this shortly short-ly company. Il nce. of all nights it Was the night for divination, and particularly for unmarried young people to I earn whom their future husbands or wivi 1 were to be. |