Halloween began as Samhain, a Celtic festival (October 29-31) when the veil between the spiritual and physical realms was considered “thin.” People lit bonfires, wore costumes, and offered sacrifices to honor ancestors, deities and welcome wandering spirits home. Satanists proclaim this as a major holiday for rituals, spells, witchcraft, and human sacrifice. Although Halloween has become commercialized to children, that doesn’t make it harmless. Mixture is engaging in the holiness of God while m

Many of the holidays we think of as Christian actually grow from much older, pagan roots. Take Halloween, for example. The earliest written sources about it come from after the Christianization of Europe—but the customs themselves reach far deeper. From Celtic Samhain to Norse Vetrnætr (Winter Nights), this season marked the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter—a sacred time when the veil between worlds was thin, and offerings were made to the ancestors. When Christianity spread, it di