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Hi, I'm Ginny on behalf of Expert Village and I would like to tell you a story. Come,
travel back in time with me as we explore the brief history of Halloween. The history
of Halloween goes back about 2500 years to 500 B.C. and the ancient Celts who lived in
the area we now know of as Western Europe. We owe most of our modern day Halloween practices
to the religious beliefs and traditions of these ancient people. The ancient Celts were
people who worshiped beauty and nature. They had many gods but their two main gods were
the objects of ceremony and worship that shaped the basis of their culture and beliefs. The
Celts believed in a sun god without whom they could not live and Samhain, the lord of death,
darkness and the cold dark winter. At the beginning of summer they had the feast of
Beltran and at the end of summer the feast of Samhain. The Celts believed that Samhain
called back the spirits of the dead on the night between summer and winter when the veil
between the worlds living and the dead were the thinnest and the spirits could pass between
them. Stay tuned for chapter two.