Halloween is a time to celebrate the spooky, the scary, and the frightening. A reason for kids to don masks and demand candy from neighbors, and an excuse for some adults to dress in outlandish, sexy, or terrifying guises that would not be socially acceptable the rest of the year. A night for monsters to wander and for ghosts to appear. Whether an innocent day of fun, or a night full of fear, Halloween is for the darker side. But long before the trick or treating, the haunted houses and the ghost stories, there was another day. Before the cross came to the shores of Ireland, the pagan people prayed to their own gods, and feared their own spirits. Before Halloween, the pagans had Samhain. The pagan holiday from the old world, like the ghosts of Halloween, did not die, but lives on and rises again and again in even our most modern traditions.
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