Delving into the ancient past, this book uncovers the history of this festival in Britain, Ireland and Brittany, including the forgotten goddess Tlachtga and the sacred temple of the Druids in Co. Meath, where the first Halloween fires were ...
A wide-ranging, illustrated look at the history of Halloween illuminates the holiday from ancient Celtic ritual to billion-dollar industry. 32 halftones & line illustrations.
However, the essays in this volume also suggest that there is something ironic and unsettling about the immense popularity of a holiday whose main images are of death, evil, and the grotesque.
But it’s Devil’s Night ... and tonight, even good girls might be tempted to the dark side. Trick or Treat is a 15,000 word prequel story to On the Rebound. This book contains mature situations and content.
... Festival , Ard- more , Okla . , 163 Chilifest ( The West Virginia State Chili Cham- pionship , Huntington , W.Va ... Halloween events : Downtown Trick or Treat Night , Livermore , Calif . , 187 Halloween Festival , Golconda , Ill ...
... Halloween, Ancestor Night, Feast of the Dead, All Hallows Eve, ...Samhain (SOW-in or SAV-ayn) marked the ... Festival known as the Festival of Lights occurs about the same time as Samhain. Diwali marks the Hindu New Year just ...
... festival outside of Stratford at Kronborg Castle (Elsinore, Denmark) as early as 1816, itself the forerunner of the ... Halloween Festival (all in October). The Christmas Festival rounded off the year. Naturally these events tended ...
Julie Young. IRVINGTON AT HALLOWEEN . Halloween has always been a special time in Irvington , even before the first Halloween festival in 1946. Pictured above , Billy Butler , Bobby Montgomery , Phyllis ? , Charles Davis , Jimmy Davis ...
The collection of essays and interviews explores the pop culture phenomenon that is Halloween, and why we celebrate it the way we do today. "After reading this book, I've added about thirty things to this year's 'Halloween to-do list'!
Wicked Witches, fiction from New England's most talented writers: G.D. Dearborn, Barry Lee Dejasu, Peter N. Dudar, Jeremy Flagg, Joshua Goudreau, Catherine Grant, Jan Kozlowski, Patrick Lacey, Izzy Lee, Nick Manzolillo, John McIlveen, Paul ...