What’s So “Hallowed” About Halloween?
The name means “hallowed evening.” But is it really? Where did it come from? What is it all about? And is it really good for children?
Creepy goblins, ghosts and demons, witches on brooms, spiders and bats, dead men’s bones, flickering jack-o’-lanterns, black cats, eerie costumes and parties. What a weird festival this is!
What a weird festival this is!
And an increasingly costly and dangerous one, too. Each year following this strange celebration, gruesome accounts surface of the giving of booby-trapped “treats” to children: apples with concealed razor blades, candy bars with hidden needles, cookies containing ground glass, bonbons laced with poisons. This is to say nothing of the cases, reported and unreported, of muggings and molestations that occur on the eve of “All Hallows.”
In addition, there are those incidences of bodily harm inflicted accidentally during the course of Halloween festivities: the automobile driver failing to see the child dressed in black crossing the street at night, the burns from a flammable costume that is ignited by a candle in a jack-o’-lantern.
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