Show For some Halloween is no laughing matter CPS HALLOWEEN a year 2500 old custom began when the ancient druids in England Ireland and France built bonfires bonfires bonfires bon bon- fires and invoked the spirits of dead ancestors to come and celebrate Evil relatives were unwelcome and scary masks discouraged their presence While the Oct 31 holiday is simple fun for most college students students students stu stu- stu- stu dents others find it troublesome even traumatic Some fundamentalist ChrisI Chris Chris- I tian tian students find evil spirits witches and goblins no light matter while others have such sucha a deep aversion to the trappings trappings trappings trap trap- pings of Halloween that they dont don't get out of bed all day Its lilts called phobia a fear of Halloween reports Dr Donald Dossey founder and president of the Phobia Institute Institute Institute In In- of Los Angeles was the god of the dead Some people who are otherwise completely normal suffer a real phobia associated only with Halloween 4 0 r |