The Book Of Hallowe'en. Four Poems : FOUR POEMS HALLOWE'EN Bring forth the raisins and the nuts-- To-night All Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way. No time is this for tear or sob, Or other woes our joys to rob, But time for Pippin and for Bob, And Jack-o'-lantern gay. Come forth, ye lass and trousered kid, From prisoned...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter Ix. In Engl : CHAPTER IX IN ENGLAND AND MAN MAN especially has a treasury of fairy tradition, Celtic and Norse combined. Manx fairies too dwell in the middle world, since they are fit for neither heaven nor hell. Even now Manx people think they see circles of light in the late October midnight, and little folk...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter Viii : CHAPTER VIII IN SCOTLAND AND THE HEBRIDES AS in Ireland the Scotch Baal festival of November was called Samhain. Western Scotland, lying nearest Tara, center alike of pagan and Christian religion in Ireland, was colonized by both the people and the customs of eastern Ireland. The November Eve fires...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter Iv. Pomona : CHAPTER IV POMONA OPS was the Latin goddess of plenty. Single parts of her province were taken over by various other divinities, among whom was Pomona (pomorum patrona, "she who cares for fruits"). She is represented as a maiden with fruit in her arms and a pruning-knife in her hand. "I am...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter Xiii. Walpurgis : CHAPTER XIII WALPURGIS NIGHT WALPURGA was a British nun who went to Germany in the eighth century to found holy houses. After a pious life she was buried at Eichstatt, where it is said a healing oil trickled from her rock-tomb. This miracle reminded men of the fruitful dew which fell from the manes...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter Xv. Hallowe'en : CHAPTER XV HALLOWE'EN IN AMERICA IN Colonial days Hallowe'en was not celebrated much in America. Some English still kept the customs of the old world, such as apple-ducking and snapping, and girls tried the apple-paring charm to reveal their lovers' initials, and the comb-and-mirror test to see...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter Vii. Hallowe'en : CHAPTER VII HALLOWE'EN BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS IN IRELAND IRELAND has a literature of Hallowe'en, or "Samhain," as it used to be called. Most of it was written between the seventh and the twelfth centuries, but the events were thought to have happened while paganism still ruled in Ireland. The evil...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter V. The Coming : CHAPTER V THE COMING OF CHRISTIANITY. ALL SAINTS'. ALL SOULS'. THE great power which the Druids exercised over their people interfered with the Roman rule of Britain. Converts were being made at Rome. Augustus forbade Romans to become initiated, Tiberius banished the priestly clan and their...
Untitled : This is a comprehensive exploration of the Pagan roots of Halloween. This text was donated by Eliza from sacredspiral.com. Thanks Eliza! Title Page Preface Contents Chapter I: Sun-Worship. The Sources of Hallowe'en Chapter II: The Celts: Their Religion and Festivals Chapter III: Samhain Chapter IV:...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter Iii. Samhain : CHAPTER III SAMHAIN ON November first was Samhain ("summer's end"). "Take my tidings: Stags contend; Snows descend-- Summer's end! "A chill wind raging, The sun low keeping, Swift to set O'er seas high sweeping. "Dull red the fern; Shapes are shadows; Wild geese mourn O'er misty meadows. "Keen cold...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter Vi. Orig : CHAPTER VI ORIGIN AND CHARACTER OF HALLOWE'EN OMENS THE custom of making tests to learn the future comes from the old system of augury from sacrifice. Who sees in the nuts thrown into the fire, turning in the heat, blazing and growing black, the writhing victim of an old-time sacrifice to an idol...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter I. Sun Worship : THE BOOK OF HALLOWE'EN CHAPTER I SUN-WORSHIP. THE SOURCES OF HALLOWE'EN IF we could ask one of the old-world pagans whom he revered as his greatest gods, he would be sure to name among them the sun-god; calling him Apollo if he were a Greek; if an Egyptian, Horus or Osiris; if of Norway, Sol; if...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter Ii. The Celts : CHAPTER II THE CELTS: THEIR RELIGION AND FESTIVALS THE first reference to Great Britain in European annals of which we know was the statement in the fifth century B.C. of the Greek historian Herodotus, that Phoenician sailors went to the British Isles for tin. He called them the "Tin Islands."...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter X. In Wales : CHAPTER X IN WALES IN Wales the custom of fires persisted from the time of the Druid festival-days longer than in any other place. First sacrifices were burned, the creatures merely passed through the fire; and with the rise of Christianity fire was thought to be a protection against the evil power...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter Xiv. More : CHAPTER XIV MORE HALLOWTIDE BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS ONLY the Celts and the Teutonics celebrate an occasion actually like our Hallowe'en. The countries of southern Europe make of it a religious vigil, like that already described in France. In Italy on the night of All Souls', the spirits of the dead are...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Preface : PREFACE THIS book is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history of Hallowe'en, how it absorbed some customs belonging to other days in the year,--such as May Day, Midsummer, and Christmas. The context is illustrated by selections from ancient and modern poetry and prose...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter Xii : CHAPTER XII THE TEUTONIC RELIGION. WITCHES THE Teutons, that race of northern peoples called by the Romans, "barbarians," comprised the Goths and Vandals who lived in Scandinavia, and the Germans who dwelt north of Italy and east of Gaul. The nature of the northern country was such that the people...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Chapter Xi. In Brittany : CHAPTER XI IN BRITTANY AND FRANCE THE Celts had been taught by their priests that the soul is immortal. When the body died the spirit passed instantly into another existence in a country close at hand. We remember that the Otherworld of the British Isles, peopled by the banished Tuatha and all...
The Book Of Hallowe'en. Title Page : THE BOOK OF HALLOWE'EN BY RUTH EDNA KELLEY, A.M. Lynn Public Library Boston Lothrop, Lee and Shepard CO. Published, August, 1919 Copyright, 1919, By Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co. To my Mother and the memory of my Father who inspired and encouraged me in the writing of this book.