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[wolf_faerie]

What's Halloween? I hear people talking about it. Is it anything like Samhain? Because I know that's going to be soon.

Another thing...does anyone know if there are turnips at the grocery store? Because I'll need them for the end of the month.

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[wolf_faerie]

So I can carve faces in them and put them outside the door! It keeps bad spirits out.

[wolf_faerie]

Things that could cast bad magic on you or gobble you up!

[godisachild]

It's the best holiday ever.

[Wow, you can actually hear childish enthusiasm spreading through his voice. Hell, he barely sounds like himself for once.]

[wolf_faerie]

Really? What do people do for it?

[godisachild]

Lots of stuff. Like, okay, the main thing is "trick or treat".

See, for that, a lot of the younger kids dress up in costumes and go door to door, saying "trick or treat", and the people in the houses give them candy. See, the thing is that the kids either get a "treat", or they play a trick on the people in the house if they're denied.

But that's for the littler kids. Me? I'm totally all about the trick part.

[wolf_faerie]

Oh. So you still wear costumes...

So you go around pulling pranks on people?

[thirdeyeclosed]

I've never heard of it, but from what I've heard here, it has something to do with dressing up and asking for candy.

[wolf_faerie]

Dressing up? People dress up on Samhain, too...

[thirdeyeclosed]

Samhain? What's that?

[wolf_faerie]

It's a harvest festival. To celebrate the end of the summer.

[chaoschildofgod]

It is somewhat related. Several of the things within Samhain were melded into Christian religion, and their All Saints' Day.

[wolf_faerie]

Is that what happened? I know the Christians celebrate that...

[chaoschildofgod]

Yes. When Christianity tried to 'correct' the pagan belief of Samhain, due to their own day of All Saints' Day, it slowly melded together to create All Hallows Eve, or Halloween.

[ooc: I apologize ahead of time if I mess up some facts.]

[wolf_faerie]

Oh. I wish they didn't have to do that...

So what do people do on Halloween?

[ooc: it's okay!]

[angelic_meister]

I'm not sure how other places celebrate it, but back home Halloween was a night for parties and trick-or-treating. It's supposed to be a time when spirits come out and things like that.

[wolf_faerie]

So it is sort of like Samhain, then. Except I don't think anyone did trick-or-treating.

[angelic_meister]

There are a lot of holidays set around this time of year! Halloween actually comes from the festival "All Hallow's Eve". It may come from the same place as Samhain.

[wolf_faerie]

"All Hallow's Eve"...

Really? I didn't know that.