Samhain 2014: 3 Things You Need To Know About The Pagan Festival

[LiberalElite]

http://www.ibtimes.com/samhain-2014-3-things-you-need-know-about-pagan-festival-1715741

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Many Wiccans, Druids and other pagans across the globe will be marking the beginning of their spiritual new year with the two-day festival of Samhain. The most widely observed pagan festival begins for most pagans on Oct. 31 -- known to others as Halloween.

“At its core, Samhain is the start of winter and of the new year in the old Celtic calendar,” Jason Pitzl, a Wiccan from Eugene, Oregon, told International Business Times. “This is a time when the ancestors are honored, divinations for the new year are performed, and festivals are held in honor of the gods. It is a time of final harvest before the long winter ahead.”
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Please note, the devil is mentioned exactly 0 times.

[johnp3907]

1. I count 1 so far.

And I've only read 5 paragraphs so far.
"It is not related to Satanism or any form of devil worship."

[LiberalElite]

2. Good for you

I didn't read it word for word.

[imthevicar]

3. The Devil was

Given Horns at the time of the King James Bible. This was because of the "Horned god of the hunt" and his worship at Samhain (pronounced-SOW-in[1] Irish pronunciation: [sˠaunʲ])and the perceived threat to Christendom and the Crown. At this point the remaining Heathens and their ceremonies deemed to be "Demonic" were rooted out and the people persecuted. nothing unites a people like a religion. BTW all Religions do this, Why because it works.