By: Ardis E. Parshall - October 31, 2017 The topic for discussion by visiting teachers in October 1934 was (unexpectedly, to me): Halloween October and Halloween, one suggests the other. Coming as it does the last night of October, preceding All Saints’ Day, is reason for its name — All Hallow Even or Halloween. Like many other holidays it has been inherited from Pagan times. In part it is survival of the ancient Briton autumn festiv...
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