Whether you celebrate Celtic New Year’s Eve [Samhain], the evening before All Saints Day [Halloween], or the posting of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 [Reformation Day], have a happy one.
Wikipedia does its normally thorough job of covering all of the bases on the holidays that share October 31st.
These are my remembrances of a traditional American Halloween.
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I was looking forward to a traditional Halloween in our neighborhood, but it is going to rain cats and dogs tomorrow. Too bad. I have the traditional jack-o-lantern and giant spider set up, and I was going to put The Mighty Fang in his harness and leash so we could greet people at the door. Hey, being greeted by a black cat on a leash on Halloween has to be worth something, right? 🙂
It has been so long since I’ve seen a child actually trick or treating, I’ve forgotten what it’s like. I’m really bummed out about all of the reduced opportunities for kids to be kids in the US.
Halloween was an American tradition and it has been destroyed by ‘conservatives’.
Black cats are very much part of Halloween, and most animal shelters down here won’t let black cats be adopted near Halloween for fear something bad will happen to them.