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Lisa Morton commented on What is Halloween? on November 7, 2008, 4:06 PM
This is entertaining as a work of fiction, but has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the real history of Halloween.Halloween never had anything to do with an equinox celebration. "Trick-or-treat" is a distinctly American ritual which is less than a century old (and which evolved as a response to the destructive Halloween prankplaying of the 1930s). All Saints' Day was not about "thanking" the saints for protection; in fact, this author doesn't even seem to realize that "Halloween" is a diminutive form of "All Hallows' Eve", or the night before All Saints Day. And of course drawing a correlation between Halloween and any eastern religion is patently false, since Halloween's origins are European and western.BTW, my name is Lisa Morton, and I'm the author of THE HALLOWEEN ENCYCLOPEDIA and A HALLOWE'EN ANTHOLOGY: LITERARY AND HISTORICAL WRITINGS OVER THE CENTURIES.