<BODY> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="halloweenave.html">halloweenave.html</A></FONT> </A> The leaves of the trees are beginning to fall, days are getting shorter and hostcolder, that means Dark night, positioned at the end of the harvest season is just around the corner and marking the beginning of winter.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="halloweenot.html">halloweenot.html</A></FONT> </A> We know that kids love Dark night and so do the candy stores.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="halloweenly.html">halloweenly.html</A></FONT> </A> But what is the real meaning of Dark night.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="halloweeniss.html">halloweeniss.html</A></FONT> </A> Historically, Dark night precedes the Christian Feast of Hallowmas , All Hallows, (when the Romans conquered the Celts, the traditions of the two different people were brought together and some of them were combined.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="halloweenit.html">halloweenit.html</A></FONT> </A> For the Romans, November 1st was an important holy day called All Saints Day.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="halloweenlight.html">halloweenlight.html</A></FONT> </A> November 1st is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="halloweenole.html">halloweenole.html</A></FONT> </A> The observances connected with Dark night, which originated among the Druids (one of the order of priests of religion in ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="halloweensen.html">halloweensen.html</A></FONT> </A> In the 5th century BC, people called Celts in Ireland began their New Year on November 1st (not January 1st ), therefore, October 31st was New Years Eve.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="halloweenast.html">halloweenast.html</A></FONT> </A> The Church says, Samhuinn, from October 31st to November 2nd was a time of no-time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="halloweenrch.html">halloweenrch.html</A></FONT> </A> The Celtic society, like all early societies, was structured and organized, everybody know their place.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="halloweenwon.html">halloweenwon.html</A></FONT> </A> But to allow that order to be psychologically comfortable, the Celts knew that there had to be a time when order and structure were abolished, when chaos could reign.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="historyave.html">historyave.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhuinn was such a time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="historyot.html">historyot.html</A></FONT> </A> The dead are honored and feasted, not as the dead, but rather as the happy spirits of loved ones and of guardians who hold the root-wisdom of the tribe.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="historyly.html">historyly.html</A></FONT> </A> With the coming of Christianity, this festivals was turned into Dark night (origin from the Catholic Church), (October 31st), All Hallows [All Saints Day] (November 1st), and All Souls Day (November 2nd).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="historyiss.html">historyiss.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhain, pronounced Sow-en , is the Sabbat 6 month from Beltane, and is the most important Sabbat.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="historyit.html">historyit.html</A></FONT> </A> Together Beltane and Samhain cut the Female on a broomes year in half.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="historylight.html">historylight.html</A></FONT> </A> Also, Samhain is the last of the three harvest Sabbats.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="historyole.html">historyole.html</A></FONT> </A> This holiday is considered the Female on a broomes New Year, representing one full turn of the seasonal year.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="historysen.html">historysen.html</A></FONT> </A> This day is a celebration of the end of the Goddess ruled Summer and marks the arrival of the God ruled Winter.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="historyast.html">historyast.html</A></FONT> </A> The name Samhain means Summer End .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="historyrch.html">historyrch.html</A></FONT> </A> The Druids knew that these three days had a special meaning.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="historywon.html">historywon.html</A></FONT> </A> The veil between this world and the World of the Ancestors was drawn aside on these nights, and for those who were prepared, the journey could be made in well to the Other Side .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="witchave.html">witchave.html</A></FONT> </A> The Celts, as well as Britain, France and Germany, honored Samhain , a Druid God of the dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="witchot.html">witchot.html</A></FONT> </A> At that time, it was believed that the souls of those who have died during the year were allowed access to the land of the dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="witchly.html">witchly.html</A></FONT> </A> At one time it was believed that the flying in darknesss of all persons who were destined to die in the coming year could be seen walking through the graveyard at midnight on Samhain.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="witchiss.html">witchiss.html</A></FONT> </A> Perhaps it is because it is on this night that the veil between this and the spirit world is the weakest.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="witchit.html">witchit.html</A></FONT> </A> Many of the flying in darknesss were thought to be of an evil nature.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="witchlight.html">witchlight.html</A></FONT> </A> Naturally, the still happy did not want to be possessed, and so for protection, Pumkin with hideous candle-lit faces were carved out of turnips and carried as lanterns to scare away the malevolent spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="witchole.html">witchole.html</A></FONT> </A> Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the spirits, other accounts of Celtic before today debunk these stories as myth.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="witchsen.html">witchsen.html</A></FONT> </A> Naturally the still happy did not want to be possessed, so on the night of October 31st, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="witchast.html">witchast.html</A></FONT> </A> They would then dress up in all manor of ghoulish costumes and noisily parade around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away evil spirits looking for bodies to possess.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="witchrch.html">witchrch.html</A></FONT> </A> It was also believed that on that evening, Saman , the lord of the dead, called forth hosts of evil spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="witchwon.html">witchwon.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhain is also the Celtic Druid New Year.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="ghostave.html">ghostave.html</A></FONT> </A> Other accounts say that Druids customarily lit bonfires on Dark night, for the purpose of warding off all these spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="ghostot.html">ghostot.html</A></FONT> </A> Those fires were built on top of hills so that the spirits find their way.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="ghostly.html">ghostly.html</A></FONT> </A> Also, it was customary to light a fire in the household hearth which would burn continuously until the first day of the following Spring.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="ghostiss.html">ghostiss.html</A></FONT> </A> Suitable eating and shelter was provided for these spirits or else they would cast a spell, cause havoc, steal infants, destroy crops, kill farm animals and create terror as they haunted the happy.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="ghostit.html">ghostit.html</A></FONT> </A> The spirits demanded placating by giving them a type of worship and offerings, (This is the thought action that Trick-or-Treat emulates today.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="ghostlight.html">ghostlight.html</A></FONT> </A> It is also said that it not originated with the Irish Celts, but with the ninth-century European custom called Souling - Walpurgisnacht, or the eve of the St.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="ghostole.html">ghostole.html</A></FONT> </A> Walpurgis Day).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="ghostsen.html">ghostsen.html</A></FONT> </A> On November 2nd, All Souls Day, people would walk from village to village begging for Souls Cakes (seeBelgium), made out of square pieces of bread with currants.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="ghostast.html">ghostast.html</A></FONT> </A> The Pumkin custom probably comes from an Irish folklore.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="ghostrch.html">ghostrch.html</A></FONT> </A> As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="ghostwon.html">ghostwon.html</A></FONT> </A> Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the Devil up on the tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="goblinsave.html">goblinsave.html</A></FONT> </A> Jack made a deal with the Devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="goblinsot.html">goblinsot.html</A></FONT> </A> The folklore further says, that after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the Devil.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="goblinsly.html">goblinsly.html</A></FONT> </A> Instead, the Devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="goblinsiss.html">goblinsiss.html</A></FONT> </A> The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="goblinsit.html">goblinsit.html</A></FONT> </A> The Irish used turnips as their Pumkin originally, but when the immigrants came to America, the found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="goblinslight.html">goblinslight.html</A></FONT> </A> It is also believed that Samhain is also the time of the year for getting rid of weaknesses.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="goblinsole.html">goblinsole.html</A></FONT> </A> On a piece of parchment paper write your weaknesses or bad habits you would like to loose.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="goblinssen.html">goblinssen.html</A></FONT> </A> Meditate on these weaknesses and how your life will be improved on loosing them.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="goblinsast.html">goblinsast.html</A></FONT> </A> Then burn the parchment paper, preferable in the ritual fire, thank the Lord and Lady, and continue on with your celebration.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="goblinsrch.html">goblinsrch.html</A></FONT> </A> There are many traditionally believes and customs associated with Samhain, most notable that night was the time of the wandering dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="goblinswon.html">goblinswon.html</A></FONT> </A> Offerings of eating and drink to masked and costumed revelers, and the lighting of bonfires, continued to be practiced on October 31st, known as the Eve of All Saints', Eve of All Hallows or Hallow Even.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="jack-o-lanternsave.html">jack-o-lanternsave.html</A></FONT> </A> For example in Belgium an old custom was to prepare Cakes for the Dead , small white cake and cookies.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="jack-o-lanternsot.html">jack-o-lanternsot.html</A></FONT> </A> A cake was eaten for each spirit honored with the belief that the more cakes you ate, the more the dead would bless you.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="jack-o-lanternsly.html">jack-o-lanternsly.html</A></FONT> </A> England Guy Fawkes Day , November 5th is celebrated in ways reminiscent of Dark night.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="jack-o-lanternsiss.html">jack-o-lanternsiss.html</A></FONT> </A> Guy Fawkes was accused of attempting to blow up the House of Parliament on that day in 1605.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="jack-o-lanternsit.html">jack-o-lanternsit.html</A></FONT> </A> He was apprehended, hung, drawn, and quartered.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="jack-o-lanternslight.html">jack-o-lanternslight.html</A></FONT> </A> On November 5th, 1606, the same Parliament declared the fifth of November a day of public thanksgiving.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="jack-o-lanternsole.html">jack-o-lanternsole.html</A></FONT> </A> The act of treason was viewed as part of a popish -- that is, Roman Catholic -- plot against the Protestant government.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="jack-o-lanternssen.html">jack-o-lanternssen.html</A></FONT> </A> Because Dark night was associated with the Catholic Church calendar, its importance diminished, but many of its traditions shifted to the annual commemoration of the dead of Guy Fawkes.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="jack-o-lanternsast.html">jack-o-lanternsast.html</A></FONT> </A> Four weeks before November 5th, English children prepare effigies of Fawkes, dummies known as Guys.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="jack-o-lanternsrch.html">jack-o-lanternsrch.html</A></FONT> </A> They set them out on street corners and beg passers-by for a penny for the Guys .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="jack-o-lanternswon.html">jack-o-lanternswon.html</A></FONT> </A> The eve of the fifth is known as Mischief Night , when children are free to play pranks on adults, just as October 30th, the night before Dark night, is known as Mischief Night in many areas.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="longtermcareave.html">longtermcareave.html</A></FONT> </A> On the night of November 5th, the Guys are burned in bonfires, just as the ancient Celts burned bonfires on November 1st.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="longtermcareot.html">longtermcareot.html</A></FONT> </A> The leaves of the trees are beginning to fall, days are getting shorter and hostcolder, that means Dark night, positioned at the end of the harvest season is just around the corner and marking the beginning of winter.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="longtermcarely.html">longtermcarely.html</A></FONT> </A> We know that kids love Dark night and so do the candy stores.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="longtermcareiss.html">longtermcareiss.html</A></FONT> </A> But what is the real meaning of Dark night.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="longtermcareit.html">longtermcareit.html</A></FONT> </A> Historically, Dark night precedes the Christian Feast of Hallowmas , All Hallows, (when the Romans conquered the Celts, the traditions of the two different people were brought together and some of them were combined.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="longtermcarelight.html">longtermcarelight.html</A></FONT> </A> For the Romans, November 1st was an important holy day called All Saints Day.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="longtermcareole.html">longtermcareole.html</A></FONT> </A> November 1st is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="longtermcaresen.html">longtermcaresen.html</A></FONT> </A> The observances connected with Dark night, which originated among the Druids (one of the order of priests of religion in ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="longtermcareast.html">longtermcareast.html</A></FONT> </A> In the 5th century BC, people called Celts in Ireland began their New Year on November 1st (not January 1st ), therefore, October 31st was New Years Eve.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="longtermcarerch.html">longtermcarerch.html</A></FONT> </A> The Church says, Samhuinn, from October 31st to November 2nd was a time of no-time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="longtermcarewon.html">longtermcarewon.html</A></FONT> </A> The Celtic society, like all early societies, was structured and organized, everybody know their place.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="careproviderave.html">careproviderave.html</A></FONT> </A> But to allow that order to be psychologically comfortable, the Celts knew that there had to be a time when order and structure were abolished, when chaos could reign.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="careproviderot.html">careproviderot.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhuinn was such a time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="careproviderly.html">careproviderly.html</A></FONT> </A> The dead are honored and feasted, not as the dead, but rather as the happy spirits of loved ones and of guardians who hold the root-wisdom of the tribe.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="careprovideriss.html">careprovideriss.html</A></FONT> </A> With the coming of Christianity, this festivals was turned into Dark night (origin from the Catholic Church), (October 31st), All Hallows [All Saints Day] (November 1st), and All Souls Day (November 2nd).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="careproviderit.html">careproviderit.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhain, pronounced Sow-en , is the Sabbat 6 month from Beltane, and is the most important Sabbat.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="careproviderlight.html">careproviderlight.html</A></FONT> </A> Together Beltane and Samhain cut the Female on a broomes year in half.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="careproviderole.html">careproviderole.html</A></FONT> </A> Also, Samhain is the last of the three harvest Sabbats.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="careprovidersen.html">careprovidersen.html</A></FONT> </A> This holiday is considered the Female on a broomes New Year, representing one full turn of the seasonal year.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="careproviderast.html">careproviderast.html</A></FONT> </A> This day is a celebration of the end of the Goddess ruled Summer and marks the arrival of the God ruled Winter.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="careproviderrch.html">careproviderrch.html</A></FONT> </A> The name Samhain means Summer End .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="careproviderwon.html">careproviderwon.html</A></FONT> </A> The Druids knew that these three days had a special meaning.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nurseave.html">nurseave.html</A></FONT> </A> The veil between this world and the World of the Ancestors was drawn aside on these nights, and for those who were prepared, the journey could be made in well to the Other Side .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nurseot.html">nurseot.html</A></FONT> </A> The Celts, as well as Britain, France and Germany, honored Samhain , a Druid God of the dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nursely.html">nursely.html</A></FONT> </A> At that time, it was believed that the souls of those who have died during the year were allowed access to the land of the dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nurseiss.html">nurseiss.html</A></FONT> </A> At one time it was believed that the flying in darknesss of all persons who were destined to die in the coming year could be seen walking through the graveyard at midnight on Samhain.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nurseit.html">nurseit.html</A></FONT> </A> Perhaps it is because it is on this night that the veil between this and the spirit world is the weakest.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nurselight.html">nurselight.html</A></FONT> </A> Many of the flying in darknesss were thought to be of an evil nature.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nurseole.html">nurseole.html</A></FONT> </A> Naturally, the still happy did not want to be possessed, and so for protection, Pumkin with hideous candle-lit faces were carved out of turnips and carried as lanterns to scare away the malevolent spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nursesen.html">nursesen.html</A></FONT> </A> Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the spirits, other accounts of Celtic before today debunk these stories as myth.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nurseast.html">nurseast.html</A></FONT> </A> Naturally the still happy did not want to be possessed, so on the night of October 31st, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nurserch.html">nurserch.html</A></FONT> </A> They would then dress up in all manor of ghoulish costumes and noisily parade around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away evil spirits looking for bodies to possess.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nursewon.html">nursewon.html</A></FONT> </A> It was also believed that on that evening, Saman , the lord of the dead, called forth hosts of evil spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditedave.html">accreditedave.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhain is also the Celtic Druid New Year.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditedot.html">accreditedot.html</A></FONT> </A> Other accounts say that Druids customarily lit bonfires on Dark night, for the purpose of warding off all these spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditedly.html">accreditedly.html</A></FONT> </A> Those fires were built on top of hills so that the spirits find their way.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditediss.html">accreditediss.html</A></FONT> </A> Also, it was customary to light a fire in the household hearth which would burn continuously until the first day of the following Spring.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditedit.html">accreditedit.html</A></FONT> </A> Suitable eating and shelter was provided for these spirits or else they would cast a spell, cause havoc, steal infants, destroy crops, kill farm animals and create terror as they haunted the happy.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditedlight.html">accreditedlight.html</A></FONT> </A> The spirits demanded placating by giving them a type of worship and offerings, (This is the thought action that Trick-or-Treat emulates today.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditedole.html">accreditedole.html</A></FONT> </A> It is also said that it not originated with the Irish Celts, but with the ninth-century European custom called Souling - Walpurgisnacht, or the eve of the St.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditedsen.html">accreditedsen.html</A></FONT> </A> Walpurgis Day).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditedast.html">accreditedast.html</A></FONT> </A> On November 2nd, All Souls Day, people would walk from village to village begging for Souls Cakes (seeBelgium), made out of square pieces of bread with currants.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditedrch.html">accreditedrch.html</A></FONT> </A> The Pumkin custom probably comes from an Irish folklore.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditedwon.html">accreditedwon.html</A></FONT> </A> As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorcareave.html">seniorcareave.html</A></FONT> </A> Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the Devil up on the tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorcareot.html">seniorcareot.html</A></FONT> </A> Jack made a deal with the Devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorcarely.html">seniorcarely.html</A></FONT> </A> The folklore further says, that after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the Devil.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorcareiss.html">seniorcareiss.html</A></FONT> </A> Instead, the Devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorcareit.html">seniorcareit.html</A></FONT> </A> The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorcarelight.html">seniorcarelight.html</A></FONT> </A> The Irish used turnips as their Pumkin originally, but when the immigrants came to America, the found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorcareole.html">seniorcareole.html</A></FONT> </A> It is also believed that Samhain is also the time of the year for getting rid of weaknesses.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorcaresen.html">seniorcaresen.html</A></FONT> </A> On a piece of parchment paper write your weaknesses or bad habits you would like to loose.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorcareast.html">seniorcareast.html</A></FONT> </A> Meditate on these weaknesses and how your life will be improved on loosing them.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorcarerch.html">seniorcarerch.html</A></FONT> </A> Then burn the parchment paper, preferable in the ritual fire, thank the Lord and Lady, and continue on with your celebration.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorcarewon.html">seniorcarewon.html</A></FONT> </A> There are many traditionally believes and customs associated with Samhain, most notable that night was the time of the wandering dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="medicalave.html">medicalave.html</A></FONT> </A> Offerings of eating and drink to masked and costumed revelers, and the lighting of bonfires, continued to be practiced on October 31st, known as the Eve of All Saints', Eve of All Hallows or Hallow Even.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="medicalot.html">medicalot.html</A></FONT> </A> For example in Belgium an old custom was to prepare Cakes for the Dead , small white cake and cookies.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="medically.html">medically.html</A></FONT> </A> A cake was eaten for each spirit honored with the belief that the more cakes you ate, the more the dead would bless you.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="medicaliss.html">medicaliss.html</A></FONT> </A> England Guy Fawkes Day , November 5th is celebrated in ways reminiscent of Dark night.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="medicalit.html">medicalit.html</A></FONT> </A> Guy Fawkes was accused of attempting to blow up the House of Parliament on that day in 1605.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="medicallight.html">medicallight.html</A></FONT> </A> He was apprehended, hung, drawn, and quartered.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="medicalole.html">medicalole.html</A></FONT> </A> On November 5th, 1606, the same Parliament declared the fifth of November a day of public thanksgiving.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="medicalsen.html">medicalsen.html</A></FONT> </A> The act of treason was viewed as part of a popish -- that is, Roman Catholic -- plot against the Protestant government.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="medicalast.html">medicalast.html</A></FONT> </A> Because Dark night was associated with the Catholic Church calendar, its importance diminished, but many of its traditions shifted to the annual commemoration of the dead of Guy Fawkes.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="medicalrch.html">medicalrch.html</A></FONT> </A> Four weeks before November 5th, English children prepare effigies of Fawkes, dummies known as Guys.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="medicalwon.html">medicalwon.html</A></FONT> </A> They set them out on street corners and beg passers-by for a penny for the Guys .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="olderadultave.html">olderadultave.html</A></FONT> </A> The eve of the fifth is known as Mischief Night , when children are free to play pranks on adults, just as October 30th, the night before Dark night, is known as Mischief Night in many areas.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="olderadultot.html">olderadultot.html</A></FONT> </A> On the night of November 5th, the Guys are burned in bonfires, just as the ancient Celts burned bonfires on November 1st.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="olderadultly.html">olderadultly.html</A></FONT> </A> The leaves of the trees are beginning to fall, days are getting shorter and hostcolder, that means Dark night, positioned at the end of the harvest season is just around the corner and marking the beginning of winter.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="olderadultiss.html">olderadultiss.html</A></FONT> </A> We know that kids love Dark night and so do the candy stores.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="olderadultit.html">olderadultit.html</A></FONT> </A> But what is the real meaning of Dark night.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="olderadultlight.html">olderadultlight.html</A></FONT> </A> Historically, Dark night precedes the Christian Feast of Hallowmas , All Hallows, (when the Romans conquered the Celts, the traditions of the two different people were brought together and some of them were combined.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="olderadultole.html">olderadultole.html</A></FONT> </A> For the Romans, November 1st was an important holy day called All Saints Day.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="olderadultsen.html">olderadultsen.html</A></FONT> </A> November 1st is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="olderadultast.html">olderadultast.html</A></FONT> </A> The observances connected with Dark night, which originated among the Druids (one of the order of priests of religion in ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="olderadultrch.html">olderadultrch.html</A></FONT> </A> In the 5th century BC, people called Celts in Ireland began their New Year on November 1st (not January 1st ), therefore, October 31st was New Years Eve.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="olderadultwon.html">olderadultwon.html</A></FONT> </A> The Church says, Samhuinn, from October 31st to November 2nd was a time of no-time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="westvancouverave.html">westvancouverave.html</A></FONT> </A> The Celtic society, like all early societies, was structured and organized, everybody know their place.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="westvancouverot.html">westvancouverot.html</A></FONT> </A> But to allow that order to be psychologically comfortable, the Celts knew that there had to be a time when order and structure were abolished, when chaos could reign.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="westvancouverly.html">westvancouverly.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhuinn was such a time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="westvancouveriss.html">westvancouveriss.html</A></FONT> </A> The dead are honored and feasted, not as the dead, but rather as the happy spirits of loved ones and of guardians who hold the root-wisdom of the tribe.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="westvancouverit.html">westvancouverit.html</A></FONT> </A> With the coming of Christianity, this festivals was turned into Dark night (origin from the Catholic Church), (October 31st), All Hallows [All Saints Day] (November 1st), and All Souls Day (November 2nd).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="westvancouverlight.html">westvancouverlight.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhain, pronounced Sow-en , is the Sabbat 6 month from Beltane, and is the most important Sabbat.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="westvancouverole.html">westvancouverole.html</A></FONT> </A> Together Beltane and Samhain cut the Female on a broomes year in half.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="westvancouversen.html">westvancouversen.html</A></FONT> </A> Also, Samhain is the last of the three harvest Sabbats.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="westvancouverast.html">westvancouverast.html</A></FONT> </A> This holiday is considered the Female on a broomes New Year, representing one full turn of the seasonal year.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="westvancouverrch.html">westvancouverrch.html</A></FONT> </A> This day is a celebration of the end of the Goddess ruled Summer and marks the arrival of the God ruled Winter.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="westvancouverwon.html">westvancouverwon.html</A></FONT> </A> The name Samhain means Summer End .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="bcave.html">bcave.html</A></FONT> </A> The Druids knew that these three days had a special meaning.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="bcot.html">bcot.html</A></FONT> </A> The veil between this world and the World of the Ancestors was drawn aside on these nights, and for those who were prepared, the journey could be made in well to the Other Side .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="bcly.html">bcly.html</A></FONT> </A> The Celts, as well as Britain, France and Germany, honored Samhain , a Druid God of the dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="bciss.html">bciss.html</A></FONT> </A> At that time, it was believed that the souls of those who have died during the year were allowed access to the land of the dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="bcit.html">bcit.html</A></FONT> </A> At one time it was believed that the flying in darknesss of all persons who were destined to die in the coming year could be seen walking through the graveyard at midnight on Samhain.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="bclight.html">bclight.html</A></FONT> </A> Perhaps it is because it is on this night that the veil between this and the spirit world is the weakest.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="bcole.html">bcole.html</A></FONT> </A> Many of the flying in darknesss were thought to be of an evil nature.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="bcsen.html">bcsen.html</A></FONT> </A> Naturally, the still happy did not want to be possessed, and so for protection, Pumkin with hideous candle-lit faces were carved out of turnips and carried as lanterns to scare away the malevolent spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="bcast.html">bcast.html</A></FONT> </A> Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the spirits, other accounts of Celtic before today debunk these stories as myth.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="bcrch.html">bcrch.html</A></FONT> </A> Naturally the still happy did not want to be possessed, so on the night of October 31st, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="bcwon.html">bcwon.html</A></FONT> </A> They would then dress up in all manor of ghoulish costumes and noisily parade around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away evil spirits looking for bodies to possess.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="canadaave.html">canadaave.html</A></FONT> </A> It was also believed that on that evening, Saman , the lord of the dead, called forth hosts of evil spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="canadaot.html">canadaot.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhain is also the Celtic Druid New Year.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="canadaly.html">canadaly.html</A></FONT> </A> Other accounts say that Druids customarily lit bonfires on Dark night, for the purpose of warding off all these spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="canadaiss.html">canadaiss.html</A></FONT> </A> Those fires were built on top of hills so that the spirits find their way.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="canadait.html">canadait.html</A></FONT> </A> Also, it was customary to light a fire in the household hearth which would burn continuously until the first day of the following Spring.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="canadalight.html">canadalight.html</A></FONT> </A> Suitable eating and shelter was provided for these spirits or else they would cast a spell, cause havoc, steal infants, destroy crops, kill farm animals and create terror as they haunted the happy.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="canadaole.html">canadaole.html</A></FONT> </A> The spirits demanded placating by giving them a type of worship and offerings, (This is the thought action that Trick-or-Treat emulates today.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="canadasen.html">canadasen.html</A></FONT> </A> It is also said that it not originated with the Irish Celts, but with the ninth-century European custom called Souling - Walpurgisnacht, or the eve of the St.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="canadaast.html">canadaast.html</A></FONT> </A> Walpurgis Day).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="canadarch.html">canadarch.html</A></FONT> </A> On November 2nd, All Souls Day, people would walk from village to village begging for Souls Cakes (seeBelgium), made out of square pieces of bread with currants.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="canadawon.html">canadawon.html</A></FONT> </A> The Pumkin custom probably comes from an Irish folklore.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="qualityadultave.html">qualityadultave.html</A></FONT> </A> As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="qualityadultot.html">qualityadultot.html</A></FONT> </A> Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the Devil up on the tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="qualityadultly.html">qualityadultly.html</A></FONT> </A> Jack made a deal with the Devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="qualityadultiss.html">qualityadultiss.html</A></FONT> </A> The folklore further says, that after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the Devil.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="qualityadultit.html">qualityadultit.html</A></FONT> </A> Instead, the Devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="qualityadultlight.html">qualityadultlight.html</A></FONT> </A> The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="qualityadultole.html">qualityadultole.html</A></FONT> </A> The Irish used turnips as their Pumkin originally, but when the immigrants came to America, the found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="qualityadultsen.html">qualityadultsen.html</A></FONT> </A> It is also believed that Samhain is also the time of the year for getting rid of weaknesses.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="qualityadultast.html">qualityadultast.html</A></FONT> </A> On a piece of parchment paper write your weaknesses or bad habits you would like to loose.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="qualityadultrch.html">qualityadultrch.html</A></FONT> </A> Meditate on these weaknesses and how your life will be improved on loosing them.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="qualityadultwon.html">qualityadultwon.html</A></FONT> </A> Then burn the parchment paper, preferable in the ritual fire, thank the Lord and Lady, and continue on with your celebration.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="securityave.html">securityave.html</A></FONT> </A> There are many traditionally believes and customs associated with Samhain, most notable that night was the time of the wandering dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="securityot.html">securityot.html</A></FONT> </A> Offerings of eating and drink to masked and costumed revelers, and the lighting of bonfires, continued to be practiced on October 31st, known as the Eve of All Saints', Eve of All Hallows or Hallow Even.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="securityly.html">securityly.html</A></FONT> </A> For example in Belgium an old custom was to prepare Cakes for the Dead , small white cake and cookies.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="securityiss.html">securityiss.html</A></FONT> </A> A cake was eaten for each spirit honored with the belief that the more cakes you ate, the more the dead would bless you.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="securityit.html">securityit.html</A></FONT> </A> England Guy Fawkes Day , November 5th is celebrated in ways reminiscent of Dark night.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="securitylight.html">securitylight.html</A></FONT> </A> Guy Fawkes was accused of attempting to blow up the House of Parliament on that day in 1605.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="securityole.html">securityole.html</A></FONT> </A> He was apprehended, hung, drawn, and quartered.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="securitysen.html">securitysen.html</A></FONT> </A> On November 5th, 1606, the same Parliament declared the fifth of November a day of public thanksgiving.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="securityast.html">securityast.html</A></FONT> </A> The act of treason was viewed as part of a popish -- that is, Roman Catholic -- plot against the Protestant government.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="securityrch.html">securityrch.html</A></FONT> </A> Because Dark night was associated with the Catholic Church calendar, its importance diminished, but many of its traditions shifted to the annual commemoration of the dead of Guy Fawkes.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="securitywon.html">securitywon.html</A></FONT> </A> Four weeks before November 5th, English children prepare effigies of Fawkes, dummies known as Guys.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="healthave.html">healthave.html</A></FONT> </A> They set them out on street corners and beg passers-by for a penny for the Guys .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="healthot.html">healthot.html</A></FONT> </A> The eve of the fifth is known as Mischief Night , when children are free to play pranks on adults, just as October 30th, the night before Dark night, is known as Mischief Night in many areas.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="healthly.html">healthly.html</A></FONT> </A> On the night of November 5th, the Guys are burned in bonfires, just as the ancient Celts burned bonfires on November 1st.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="healthiss.html">healthiss.html</A></FONT> </A> The leaves of the trees are beginning to fall, days are getting shorter and hostcolder, that means Dark night, positioned at the end of the harvest season is just around the corner and marking the beginning of winter.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="healthit.html">healthit.html</A></FONT> </A> We know that kids love Dark night and so do the candy stores.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="healthlight.html">healthlight.html</A></FONT> </A> But what is the real meaning of Dark night.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="healthole.html">healthole.html</A></FONT> </A> Historically, Dark night precedes the Christian Feast of Hallowmas , All Hallows, (when the Romans conquered the Celts, the traditions of the two different people were brought together and some of them were combined.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="healthsen.html">healthsen.html</A></FONT> </A> For the Romans, November 1st was an important holy day called All Saints Day.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="healthast.html">healthast.html</A></FONT> </A> November 1st is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="healthrch.html">healthrch.html</A></FONT> </A> The observances connected with Dark night, which originated among the Druids (one of the order of priests of religion in ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="healthwon.html">healthwon.html</A></FONT> </A> In the 5th century BC, people called Celts in Ireland began their New Year on November 1st (not January 1st ), therefore, October 31st was New Years Eve.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="respiteave.html">respiteave.html</A></FONT> </A> The Church says, Samhuinn, from October 31st to November 2nd was a time of no-time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="respiteot.html">respiteot.html</A></FONT> </A> The Celtic society, like all early societies, was structured and organized, everybody know their place.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="respitely.html">respitely.html</A></FONT> </A> But to allow that order to be psychologically comfortable, the Celts knew that there had to be a time when order and structure were abolished, when chaos could reign.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="respiteiss.html">respiteiss.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhuinn was such a time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="respiteit.html">respiteit.html</A></FONT> </A> The dead are honored and feasted, not as the dead, but rather as the happy spirits of loved ones and of guardians who hold the root-wisdom of the tribe.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="respitelight.html">respitelight.html</A></FONT> </A> With the coming of Christianity, this festivals was turned into Dark night (origin from the Catholic Church), (October 31st), All Hallows [All Saints Day] (November 1st), and All Souls Day (November 2nd).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="respiteole.html">respiteole.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhain, pronounced Sow-en , is the Sabbat 6 month from Beltane, and is the most important Sabbat.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="respitesen.html">respitesen.html</A></FONT> </A> Together Beltane and Samhain cut the Female on a broomes year in half.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="respiteast.html">respiteast.html</A></FONT> </A> Also, Samhain is the last of the three harvest Sabbats.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="respiterch.html">respiterch.html</A></FONT> </A> This holiday is considered the Female on a broomes New Year, representing one full turn of the seasonal year.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="respitewon.html">respitewon.html</A></FONT> </A> This day is a celebration of the end of the Goddess ruled Summer and marks the arrival of the God ruled Winter.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorsplanningave.html">seniorsplanningave.html</A></FONT> </A> The name Samhain means Summer End .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorsplanningot.html">seniorsplanningot.html</A></FONT> </A> The Druids knew that these three days had a special meaning.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorsplanningly.html">seniorsplanningly.html</A></FONT> </A> The veil between this world and the World of the Ancestors was drawn aside on these nights, and for those who were prepared, the journey could be made in well to the Other Side .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorsplanningiss.html">seniorsplanningiss.html</A></FONT> </A> The Celts, as well as Britain, France and Germany, honored Samhain , a Druid God of the dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorsplanningit.html">seniorsplanningit.html</A></FONT> </A> At that time, it was believed that the souls of those who have died during the year were allowed access to the land of the dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorsplanninglight.html">seniorsplanninglight.html</A></FONT> </A> At one time it was believed that the flying in darknesss of all persons who were destined to die in the coming year could be seen walking through the graveyard at midnight on Samhain.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorsplanningole.html">seniorsplanningole.html</A></FONT> </A> Perhaps it is because it is on this night that the veil between this and the spirit world is the weakest.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorsplanningsen.html">seniorsplanningsen.html</A></FONT> </A> Many of the flying in darknesss were thought to be of an evil nature.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorsplanningast.html">seniorsplanningast.html</A></FONT> </A> Naturally, the still happy did not want to be possessed, and so for protection, Pumkin with hideous candle-lit faces were carved out of turnips and carried as lanterns to scare away the malevolent spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorsplanningrch.html">seniorsplanningrch.html</A></FONT> </A> Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the spirits, other accounts of Celtic before today debunk these stories as myth.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="seniorsplanningwon.html">seniorsplanningwon.html</A></FONT> </A> Naturally the still happy did not want to be possessed, so on the night of October 31st, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nursingforelderlyave.html">nursingforelderlyave.html</A></FONT> </A> They would then dress up in all manor of ghoulish costumes and noisily parade around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away evil spirits looking for bodies to possess.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nursingforelderlyot.html">nursingforelderlyot.html</A></FONT> </A> It was also believed that on that evening, Saman , the lord of the dead, called forth hosts of evil spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nursingforelderlyly.html">nursingforelderlyly.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhain is also the Celtic Druid New Year.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nursingforelderlyiss.html">nursingforelderlyiss.html</A></FONT> </A> Other accounts say that Druids customarily lit bonfires on Dark night, for the purpose of warding off all these spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nursingforelderlyit.html">nursingforelderlyit.html</A></FONT> </A> Those fires were built on top of hills so that the spirits find their way.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nursingforelderlylight.html">nursingforelderlylight.html</A></FONT> </A> Also, it was customary to light a fire in the household hearth which would burn continuously until the first day of the following Spring.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nursingforelderlyole.html">nursingforelderlyole.html</A></FONT> </A> Suitable eating and shelter was provided for these spirits or else they would cast a spell, cause havoc, steal infants, destroy crops, kill farm animals and create terror as they haunted the happy.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nursingforelderlysen.html">nursingforelderlysen.html</A></FONT> </A> The spirits demanded placating by giving them a type of worship and offerings, (This is the thought action that Trick-or-Treat emulates today.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nursingforelderlyast.html">nursingforelderlyast.html</A></FONT> </A> It is also said that it not originated with the Irish Celts, but with the ninth-century European custom called Souling - Walpurgisnacht, or the eve of the St.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nursingforelderlyrch.html">nursingforelderlyrch.html</A></FONT> </A> Walpurgis Day).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nursingforelderlywon.html">nursingforelderlywon.html</A></FONT> </A> On November 2nd, All Souls Day, people would walk from village to village begging for Souls Cakes (seeBelgium), made out of square pieces of bread with currants.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditationave.html">accreditationave.html</A></FONT> </A> The Pumkin custom probably comes from an Irish folklore.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditationot.html">accreditationot.html</A></FONT> </A> As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditationly.html">accreditationly.html</A></FONT> </A> Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the Devil up on the tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditationiss.html">accreditationiss.html</A></FONT> </A> Jack made a deal with the Devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditationit.html">accreditationit.html</A></FONT> </A> The folklore further says, that after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the Devil.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditationlight.html">accreditationlight.html</A></FONT> </A> Instead, the Devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditationole.html">accreditationole.html</A></FONT> </A> The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditationsen.html">accreditationsen.html</A></FONT> </A> The Irish used turnips as their Pumkin originally, but when the immigrants came to America, the found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditationast.html">accreditationast.html</A></FONT> </A> It is also believed that Samhain is also the time of the year for getting rid of weaknesses.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditationrch.html">accreditationrch.html</A></FONT> </A> On a piece of parchment paper write your weaknesses or bad habits you would like to loose.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="accreditationwon.html">accreditationwon.html</A></FONT> </A> Meditate on these weaknesses and how your life will be improved on loosing them.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="missionave.html">missionave.html</A></FONT> </A> Then burn the parchment paper, preferable in the ritual fire, thank the Lord and Lady, and continue on with your celebration.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="missionot.html">missionot.html</A></FONT> </A> There are many traditionally believes and customs associated with Samhain, most notable that night was the time of the wandering dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="missionly.html">missionly.html</A></FONT> </A> Offerings of eating and drink to masked and costumed revelers, and the lighting of bonfires, continued to be practiced on October 31st, known as the Eve of All Saints', Eve of All Hallows or Hallow Even.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="missioniss.html">missioniss.html</A></FONT> </A> For example in Belgium an old custom was to prepare Cakes for the Dead , small white cake and cookies.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="missionit.html">missionit.html</A></FONT> </A> A cake was eaten for each spirit honored with the belief that the more cakes you ate, the more the dead would bless you.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="missionlight.html">missionlight.html</A></FONT> </A> England Guy Fawkes Day , November 5th is celebrated in ways reminiscent of Dark night.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="missionole.html">missionole.html</A></FONT> </A> Guy Fawkes was accused of attempting to blow up the House of Parliament on that day in 1605.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="missionsen.html">missionsen.html</A></FONT> </A> He was apprehended, hung, drawn, and quartered.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="missionast.html">missionast.html</A></FONT> </A> On November 5th, 1606, the same Parliament declared the fifth of November a day of public thanksgiving.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="missionrch.html">missionrch.html</A></FONT> </A> The act of treason was viewed as part of a popish -- that is, Roman Catholic -- plot against the Protestant government.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="missionwon.html">missionwon.html</A></FONT> </A> Because Dark night was associated with the Catholic Church calendar, its importance diminished, but many of its traditions shifted to the annual commemoration of the dead of Guy Fawkes.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="residenthandbookave.html">residenthandbookave.html</A></FONT> </A> Four weeks before November 5th, English children prepare effigies of Fawkes, dummies known as Guys.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="residenthandbookot.html">residenthandbookot.html</A></FONT> </A> They set them out on street corners and beg passers-by for a penny for the Guys .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="residenthandbookly.html">residenthandbookly.html</A></FONT> </A> The eve of the fifth is known as Mischief Night , when children are free to play pranks on adults, just as October 30th, the night before Dark night, is known as Mischief Night in many areas.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="residenthandbookiss.html">residenthandbookiss.html</A></FONT> </A> On the night of November 5th, the Guys are burned in bonfires, just as the ancient Celts burned bonfires on November 1st.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="residenthandbookit.html">residenthandbookit.html</A></FONT> </A> The leaves of the trees are beginning to fall, days are getting shorter and hostcolder, that means Dark night, positioned at the end of the harvest season is just around the corner and marking the beginning of winter.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="residenthandbooklight.html">residenthandbooklight.html</A></FONT> </A> We know that kids love Dark night and so do the candy stores.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="residenthandbookole.html">residenthandbookole.html</A></FONT> </A> But what is the real meaning of Dark night.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="residenthandbooksen.html">residenthandbooksen.html</A></FONT> </A> Historically, Dark night precedes the Christian Feast of Hallowmas , All Hallows, (when the Romans conquered the Celts, the traditions of the two different people were brought together and some of them were combined.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="residenthandbookast.html">residenthandbookast.html</A></FONT> </A> For the Romans, November 1st was an important holy day called All Saints Day.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="residenthandbookrch.html">residenthandbookrch.html</A></FONT> </A> November 1st is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="residenthandbookwon.html">residenthandbookwon.html</A></FONT> </A> The observances connected with Dark night, which originated among the Druids (one of the order of priests of religion in ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dietaryave.html">dietaryave.html</A></FONT> </A> In the 5th century BC, people called Celts in Ireland began their New Year on November 1st (not January 1st ), therefore, October 31st was New Years Eve.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dietaryot.html">dietaryot.html</A></FONT> </A> The Church says, Samhuinn, from October 31st to November 2nd was a time of no-time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dietaryly.html">dietaryly.html</A></FONT> </A> The Celtic society, like all early societies, was structured and organized, everybody know their place.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dietaryiss.html">dietaryiss.html</A></FONT> </A> But to allow that order to be psychologically comfortable, the Celts knew that there had to be a time when order and structure were abolished, when chaos could reign.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dietaryit.html">dietaryit.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhuinn was such a time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dietarylight.html">dietarylight.html</A></FONT> </A> The dead are honored and feasted, not as the dead, but rather as the happy spirits of loved ones and of guardians who hold the root-wisdom of the tribe.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dietaryole.html">dietaryole.html</A></FONT> </A> With the coming of Christianity, this festivals was turned into Dark night (origin from the Catholic Church), (October 31st), All Hallows [All Saints Day] (November 1st), and All Souls Day (November 2nd).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dietarysen.html">dietarysen.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhain, pronounced Sow-en , is the Sabbat 6 month from Beltane, and is the most important Sabbat.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dietaryast.html">dietaryast.html</A></FONT> </A> Together Beltane and Samhain cut the Female on a broomes year in half.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dietaryrch.html">dietaryrch.html</A></FONT> </A> Also, Samhain is the last of the three harvest Sabbats.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dietarywon.html">dietarywon.html</A></FONT> </A> This holiday is considered the Female on a broomes New Year, representing one full turn of the seasonal year.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nutritionave.html">nutritionave.html</A></FONT> </A> This day is a celebration of the end of the Goddess ruled Summer and marks the arrival of the God ruled Winter.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nutritionot.html">nutritionot.html</A></FONT> </A> The name Samhain means Summer End .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nutritionly.html">nutritionly.html</A></FONT> </A> The Druids knew that these three days had a special meaning.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nutritioniss.html">nutritioniss.html</A></FONT> </A> The veil between this world and the World of the Ancestors was drawn aside on these nights, and for those who were prepared, the journey could be made in well to the Other Side .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nutritionit.html">nutritionit.html</A></FONT> </A> The Celts, as well as Britain, France and Germany, honored Samhain , a Druid God of the dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nutritionlight.html">nutritionlight.html</A></FONT> </A> At that time, it was believed that the souls of those who have died during the year were allowed access to the land of the dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nutritionole.html">nutritionole.html</A></FONT> </A> At one time it was believed that the flying in darknesss of all persons who were destined to die in the coming year could be seen walking through the graveyard at midnight on Samhain.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nutritionsen.html">nutritionsen.html</A></FONT> </A> Perhaps it is because it is on this night that the veil between this and the spirit world is the weakest.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nutritionast.html">nutritionast.html</A></FONT> </A> Many of the flying in darknesss were thought to be of an evil nature.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nutritionrch.html">nutritionrch.html</A></FONT> </A> Naturally, the still happy did not want to be possessed, and so for protection, Pumkin with hideous candle-lit faces were carved out of turnips and carried as lanterns to scare away the malevolent spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="nutritionwon.html">nutritionwon.html</A></FONT> </A> Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the spirits, other accounts of Celtic before today debunk these stories as myth.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodave.html">foodave.html</A></FONT> </A> Naturally the still happy did not want to be possessed, so on the night of October 31st, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodot.html">foodot.html</A></FONT> </A> They would then dress up in all manor of ghoulish costumes and noisily parade around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away evil spirits looking for bodies to possess.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodly.html">foodly.html</A></FONT> </A> It was also believed that on that evening, Saman , the lord of the dead, called forth hosts of evil spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodiss.html">foodiss.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhain is also the Celtic Druid New Year.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodit.html">foodit.html</A></FONT> </A> Other accounts say that Druids customarily lit bonfires on Dark night, for the purpose of warding off all these spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodlight.html">foodlight.html</A></FONT> </A> Those fires were built on top of hills so that the spirits find their way.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodole.html">foodole.html</A></FONT> </A> Also, it was customary to light a fire in the household hearth which would burn continuously until the first day of the following Spring.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodsen.html">foodsen.html</A></FONT> </A> Suitable eating and shelter was provided for these spirits or else they would cast a spell, cause havoc, steal infants, destroy crops, kill farm animals and create terror as they haunted the happy.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodast.html">foodast.html</A></FONT> </A> The spirits demanded placating by giving them a type of worship and offerings, (This is the thought action that Trick-or-Treat emulates today.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodrch.html">foodrch.html</A></FONT> </A> It is also said that it not originated with the Irish Celts, but with the ninth-century European custom called Souling - Walpurgisnacht, or the eve of the St.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodwon.html">foodwon.html</A></FONT> </A> Walpurgis Day).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationave.html">recreationave.html</A></FONT> </A> On November 2nd, All Souls Day, people would walk from village to village begging for Souls Cakes (seeBelgium), made out of square pieces of bread with currants.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationot.html">recreationot.html</A></FONT> </A> The Pumkin custom probably comes from an Irish folklore.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationly.html">recreationly.html</A></FONT> </A> As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationiss.html">recreationiss.html</A></FONT> </A> Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the Devil up on the tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationit.html">recreationit.html</A></FONT> </A> Jack made a deal with the Devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationlight.html">recreationlight.html</A></FONT> </A> The folklore further says, that after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the Devil.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationole.html">recreationole.html</A></FONT> </A> Instead, the Devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationsen.html">recreationsen.html</A></FONT> </A> The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationast.html">recreationast.html</A></FONT> </A> The Irish used turnips as their Pumkin originally, but when the immigrants came to America, the found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationrch.html">recreationrch.html</A></FONT> </A> It is also believed that Samhain is also the time of the year for getting rid of weaknesses.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationwon.html">recreationwon.html</A></FONT> </A> On a piece of parchment paper write your weaknesses or bad habits you would like to loose.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="communityave.html">communityave.html</A></FONT> </A> Meditate on these weaknesses and how your life will be improved on loosing them.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="communityot.html">communityot.html</A></FONT> </A> Then burn the parchment paper, preferable in the ritual fire, thank the Lord and Lady, and continue on with your celebration.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="communityly.html">communityly.html</A></FONT> </A> There are many traditionally believes and customs associated with Samhain, most notable that night was the time of the wandering dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="communityiss.html">communityiss.html</A></FONT> </A> Offerings of eating and drink to masked and costumed revelers, and the lighting of bonfires, continued to be practiced on October 31st, known as the Eve of All Saints', Eve of All Hallows or Hallow Even.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="communityit.html">communityit.html</A></FONT> </A> For example in Belgium an old custom was to prepare Cakes for the Dead , small white cake and cookies.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="communitylight.html">communitylight.html</A></FONT> </A> A cake was eaten for each spirit honored with the belief that the more cakes you ate, the more the dead would bless you.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="communityole.html">communityole.html</A></FONT> </A> England Guy Fawkes Day , November 5th is celebrated in ways reminiscent of Dark night.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="communitysen.html">communitysen.html</A></FONT> </A> Guy Fawkes was accused of attempting to blow up the House of Parliament on that day in 1605.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="communityast.html">communityast.html</A></FONT> </A> He was apprehended, hung, drawn, and quartered.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="communityrch.html">communityrch.html</A></FONT> </A> On November 5th, 1606, the same Parliament declared the fifth of November a day of public thanksgiving.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="communitywon.html">communitywon.html</A></FONT> </A> The act of treason was viewed as part of a popish -- that is, Roman Catholic -- plot against the Protestant government.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="physiotherapyave.html">physiotherapyave.html</A></FONT> </A> Because Dark night was associated with the Catholic Church calendar, its importance diminished, but many of its traditions shifted to the annual commemoration of the dead of Guy Fawkes.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="physiotherapyot.html">physiotherapyot.html</A></FONT> </A> Four weeks before November 5th, English children prepare effigies of Fawkes, dummies known as Guys.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="physiotherapyly.html">physiotherapyly.html</A></FONT> </A> They set them out on street corners and beg passers-by for a penny for the Guys .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="physiotherapyiss.html">physiotherapyiss.html</A></FONT> </A> The eve of the fifth is known as Mischief Night , when children are free to play pranks on adults, just as October 30th, the night before Dark night, is known as Mischief Night in many areas.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="physiotherapyit.html">physiotherapyit.html</A></FONT> </A> On the night of November 5th, the Guys are burned in bonfires, just as the ancient Celts burned bonfires on November 1st.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="physiotherapylight.html">physiotherapylight.html</A></FONT> </A> The leaves of the trees are beginning to fall, days are getting shorter and hostcolder, that means Dark night, positioned at the end of the harvest season is just around the corner and marking the beginning of winter.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="physiotherapyole.html">physiotherapyole.html</A></FONT> </A> We know that kids love Dark night and so do the candy stores.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="physiotherapysen.html">physiotherapysen.html</A></FONT> </A> But what is the real meaning of Dark night.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="physiotherapyast.html">physiotherapyast.html</A></FONT> </A> Historically, Dark night precedes the Christian Feast of Hallowmas , All Hallows, (when the Romans conquered the Celts, the traditions of the two different people were brought together and some of them were combined.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="physiotherapyrch.html">physiotherapyrch.html</A></FONT> </A> For the Romans, November 1st was an important holy day called All Saints Day.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="physiotherapywon.html">physiotherapywon.html</A></FONT> </A> November 1st is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodsafetyave.html">foodsafetyave.html</A></FONT> </A> The observances connected with Dark night, which originated among the Druids (one of the order of priests of religion in ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodsafetyot.html">foodsafetyot.html</A></FONT> </A> In the 5th century BC, people called Celts in Ireland began their New Year on November 1st (not January 1st ), therefore, October 31st was New Years Eve.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodsafetyly.html">foodsafetyly.html</A></FONT> </A> The Church says, Samhuinn, from October 31st to November 2nd was a time of no-time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodsafetyiss.html">foodsafetyiss.html</A></FONT> </A> The Celtic society, like all early societies, was structured and organized, everybody know their place.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodsafetyit.html">foodsafetyit.html</A></FONT> </A> But to allow that order to be psychologically comfortable, the Celts knew that there had to be a time when order and structure were abolished, when chaos could reign.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodsafetylight.html">foodsafetylight.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhuinn was such a time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodsafetyole.html">foodsafetyole.html</A></FONT> </A> The dead are honored and feasted, not as the dead, but rather as the happy spirits of loved ones and of guardians who hold the root-wisdom of the tribe.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodsafetysen.html">foodsafetysen.html</A></FONT> </A> With the coming of Christianity, this festivals was turned into Dark night (origin from the Catholic Church), (October 31st), All Hallows [All Saints Day] (November 1st), and All Souls Day (November 2nd).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodsafetyast.html">foodsafetyast.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhain, pronounced Sow-en , is the Sabbat 6 month from Beltane, and is the most important Sabbat.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodsafetyrch.html">foodsafetyrch.html</A></FONT> </A> Together Beltane and Samhain cut the Female on a broomes year in half.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="foodsafetywon.html">foodsafetywon.html</A></FONT> </A> Also, Samhain is the last of the three harvest Sabbats.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="independentlivingave.html">independentlivingave.html</A></FONT> </A> This holiday is considered the Female on a broomes New Year, representing one full turn of the seasonal year.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="independentlivingot.html">independentlivingot.html</A></FONT> </A> This day is a celebration of the end of the Goddess ruled Summer and marks the arrival of the God ruled Winter.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="independentlivingly.html">independentlivingly.html</A></FONT> </A> The name Samhain means Summer End .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="independentlivingiss.html">independentlivingiss.html</A></FONT> </A> The Druids knew that these three days had a special meaning.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="independentlivingit.html">independentlivingit.html</A></FONT> </A> The veil between this world and the World of the Ancestors was drawn aside on these nights, and for those who were prepared, the journey could be made in well to the Other Side .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="independentlivinglight.html">independentlivinglight.html</A></FONT> </A> The Celts, as well as Britain, France and Germany, honored Samhain , a Druid God of the dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="independentlivingole.html">independentlivingole.html</A></FONT> </A> At that time, it was believed that the souls of those who have died during the year were allowed access to the land of the dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="independentlivingsen.html">independentlivingsen.html</A></FONT> </A> At one time it was believed that the flying in darknesss of all persons who were destined to die in the coming year could be seen walking through the graveyard at midnight on Samhain.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="independentlivingast.html">independentlivingast.html</A></FONT> </A> Perhaps it is because it is on this night that the veil between this and the spirit world is the weakest.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="independentlivingrch.html">independentlivingrch.html</A></FONT> </A> Many of the flying in darknesss were thought to be of an evil nature.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="independentlivingwon.html">independentlivingwon.html</A></FONT> </A> Naturally, the still happy did not want to be possessed, and so for protection, Pumkin with hideous candle-lit faces were carved out of turnips and carried as lanterns to scare away the malevolent spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="alzheimerave.html">alzheimerave.html</A></FONT> </A> Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the spirits, other accounts of Celtic before today debunk these stories as myth.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="alzheimerot.html">alzheimerot.html</A></FONT> </A> Naturally the still happy did not want to be possessed, so on the night of October 31st, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="alzheimerly.html">alzheimerly.html</A></FONT> </A> They would then dress up in all manor of ghoulish costumes and noisily parade around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away evil spirits looking for bodies to possess.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="alzheimeriss.html">alzheimeriss.html</A></FONT> </A> It was also believed that on that evening, Saman , the lord of the dead, called forth hosts of evil spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="alzheimerit.html">alzheimerit.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhain is also the Celtic Druid New Year.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="alzheimerlight.html">alzheimerlight.html</A></FONT> </A> Other accounts say that Druids customarily lit bonfires on Dark night, for the purpose of warding off all these spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="alzheimerole.html">alzheimerole.html</A></FONT> </A> Those fires were built on top of hills so that the spirits find their way.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="alzheimersen.html">alzheimersen.html</A></FONT> </A> Also, it was customary to light a fire in the household hearth which would burn continuously until the first day of the following Spring.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="alzheimerast.html">alzheimerast.html</A></FONT> </A> Suitable eating and shelter was provided for these spirits or else they would cast a spell, cause havoc, steal infants, destroy crops, kill farm animals and create terror as they haunted the happy.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="alzheimerrch.html">alzheimerrch.html</A></FONT> </A> The spirits demanded placating by giving them a type of worship and offerings, (This is the thought action that Trick-or-Treat emulates today.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="alzheimerwon.html">alzheimerwon.html</A></FONT> </A> It is also said that it not originated with the Irish Celts, but with the ninth-century European custom called Souling - Walpurgisnacht, or the eve of the St.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="retirementave.html">retirementave.html</A></FONT> </A> Walpurgis Day).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="retirementot.html">retirementot.html</A></FONT> </A> On November 2nd, All Souls Day, people would walk from village to village begging for Souls Cakes (seeBelgium), made out of square pieces of bread with currants.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="retiremently.html">retiremently.html</A></FONT> </A> The Pumkin custom probably comes from an Irish folklore.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="retirementiss.html">retirementiss.html</A></FONT> </A> As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="retirementit.html">retirementit.html</A></FONT> </A> Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the Devil up on the tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="retirementlight.html">retirementlight.html</A></FONT> </A> Jack made a deal with the Devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="retirementole.html">retirementole.html</A></FONT> </A> The folklore further says, that after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the Devil.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="retirementsen.html">retirementsen.html</A></FONT> </A> Instead, the Devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="retirementast.html">retirementast.html</A></FONT> </A> The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="retirementrch.html">retirementrch.html</A></FONT> </A> The Irish used turnips as their Pumkin originally, but when the immigrants came to America, the found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="retirementwon.html">retirementwon.html</A></FONT> </A> It is also believed that Samhain is also the time of the year for getting rid of weaknesses.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dementiaave.html">dementiaave.html</A></FONT> </A> On a piece of parchment paper write your weaknesses or bad habits you would like to loose.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dementiaot.html">dementiaot.html</A></FONT> </A> Meditate on these weaknesses and how your life will be improved on loosing them.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dementialy.html">dementialy.html</A></FONT> </A> Then burn the parchment paper, preferable in the ritual fire, thank the Lord and Lady, and continue on with your celebration.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dementiaiss.html">dementiaiss.html</A></FONT> </A> There are many traditionally believes and customs associated with Samhain, most notable that night was the time of the wandering dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dementiait.html">dementiait.html</A></FONT> </A> Offerings of eating and drink to masked and costumed revelers, and the lighting of bonfires, continued to be practiced on October 31st, known as the Eve of All Saints', Eve of All Hallows or Hallow Even.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dementialight.html">dementialight.html</A></FONT> </A> For example in Belgium an old custom was to prepare Cakes for the Dead , small white cake and cookies.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dementiaole.html">dementiaole.html</A></FONT> </A> A cake was eaten for each spirit honored with the belief that the more cakes you ate, the more the dead would bless you.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dementiasen.html">dementiasen.html</A></FONT> </A> England Guy Fawkes Day , November 5th is celebrated in ways reminiscent of Dark night.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dementiaast.html">dementiaast.html</A></FONT> </A> Guy Fawkes was accused of attempting to blow up the House of Parliament on that day in 1605.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dementiarch.html">dementiarch.html</A></FONT> </A> He was apprehended, hung, drawn, and quartered.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dementiawon.html">dementiawon.html</A></FONT> </A> On November 5th, 1606, the same Parliament declared the fifth of November a day of public thanksgiving.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="activitiesave.html">activitiesave.html</A></FONT> </A> The act of treason was viewed as part of a popish -- that is, Roman Catholic -- plot against the Protestant government.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="activitiesot.html">activitiesot.html</A></FONT> </A> Because Dark night was associated with the Catholic Church calendar, its importance diminished, but many of its traditions shifted to the annual commemoration of the dead of Guy Fawkes.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="activitiesly.html">activitiesly.html</A></FONT> </A> Four weeks before November 5th, English children prepare effigies of Fawkes, dummies known as Guys.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="activitiesiss.html">activitiesiss.html</A></FONT> </A> They set them out on street corners and beg passers-by for a penny for the Guys .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="activitiesit.html">activitiesit.html</A></FONT> </A> The eve of the fifth is known as Mischief Night , when children are free to play pranks on adults, just as October 30th, the night before Dark night, is known as Mischief Night in many areas.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="activitieslight.html">activitieslight.html</A></FONT> </A> On the night of November 5th, the Guys are burned in bonfires, just as the ancient Celts burned bonfires on November 1st.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="activitiesole.html">activitiesole.html</A></FONT> </A> The leaves of the trees are beginning to fall, days are getting shorter and hostcolder, that means Dark night, positioned at the end of the harvest season is just around the corner and marking the beginning of winter.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="activitiessen.html">activitiessen.html</A></FONT> </A> We know that kids love Dark night and so do the candy stores.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="activitiesast.html">activitiesast.html</A></FONT> </A> But what is the real meaning of Dark night.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="activitiesrch.html">activitiesrch.html</A></FONT> </A> Historically, Dark night precedes the Christian Feast of Hallowmas , All Hallows, (when the Romans conquered the Celts, the traditions of the two different people were brought together and some of them were combined.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="activitieswon.html">activitieswon.html</A></FONT> </A> For the Romans, November 1st was an important holy day called All Saints Day.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="occupationaltherapyave.html">occupationaltherapyave.html</A></FONT> </A> November 1st is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="occupationaltherapyot.html">occupationaltherapyot.html</A></FONT> </A> The observances connected with Dark night, which originated among the Druids (one of the order of priests of religion in ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="occupationaltherapyly.html">occupationaltherapyly.html</A></FONT> </A> In the 5th century BC, people called Celts in Ireland began their New Year on November 1st (not January 1st ), therefore, October 31st was New Years Eve.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="occupationaltherapyiss.html">occupationaltherapyiss.html</A></FONT> </A> The Church says, Samhuinn, from October 31st to November 2nd was a time of no-time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="occupationaltherapyit.html">occupationaltherapyit.html</A></FONT> </A> The Celtic society, like all early societies, was structured and organized, everybody know their place.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="occupationaltherapylight.html">occupationaltherapylight.html</A></FONT> </A> But to allow that order to be psychologically comfortable, the Celts knew that there had to be a time when order and structure were abolished, when chaos could reign.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="occupationaltherapyole.html">occupationaltherapyole.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhuinn was such a time.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="occupationaltherapysen.html">occupationaltherapysen.html</A></FONT> </A> The dead are honored and feasted, not as the dead, but rather as the happy spirits of loved ones and of guardians who hold the root-wisdom of the tribe.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="occupationaltherapyast.html">occupationaltherapyast.html</A></FONT> </A> With the coming of Christianity, this festivals was turned into Dark night (origin from the Catholic Church), (October 31st), All Hallows [All Saints Day] (November 1st), and All Souls Day (November 2nd).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="occupationaltherapyrch.html">occupationaltherapyrch.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhain, pronounced Sow-en , is the Sabbat 6 month from Beltane, and is the most important Sabbat.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="occupationaltherapywon.html">occupationaltherapywon.html</A></FONT> </A> Together Beltane and Samhain cut the Female on a broomes year in half.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationaltherapyave.html">recreationaltherapyave.html</A></FONT> </A> Also, Samhain is the last of the three harvest Sabbats.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationaltherapyot.html">recreationaltherapyot.html</A></FONT> </A> This holiday is considered the Female on a broomes New Year, representing one full turn of the seasonal year.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationaltherapyly.html">recreationaltherapyly.html</A></FONT> </A> This day is a celebration of the end of the Goddess ruled Summer and marks the arrival of the God ruled Winter.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationaltherapyiss.html">recreationaltherapyiss.html</A></FONT> </A> The name Samhain means Summer End .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationaltherapyit.html">recreationaltherapyit.html</A></FONT> </A> The Druids knew that these three days had a special meaning.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationaltherapylight.html">recreationaltherapylight.html</A></FONT> </A> The veil between this world and the World of the Ancestors was drawn aside on these nights, and for those who were prepared, the journey could be made in well to the Other Side .</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationaltherapyole.html">recreationaltherapyole.html</A></FONT> </A> The Celts, as well as Britain, France and Germany, honored Samhain , a Druid God of the dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationaltherapysen.html">recreationaltherapysen.html</A></FONT> </A> At that time, it was believed that the souls of those who have died during the year were allowed access to the land of the dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationaltherapyast.html">recreationaltherapyast.html</A></FONT> </A> At one time it was believed that the flying in darknesss of all persons who were destined to die in the coming year could be seen walking through the graveyard at midnight on Samhain.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationaltherapyrch.html">recreationaltherapyrch.html</A></FONT> </A> Perhaps it is because it is on this night that the veil between this and the spirit world is the weakest.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="recreationaltherapywon.html">recreationaltherapywon.html</A></FONT> </A> Many of the flying in darknesss were thought to be of an evil nature.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="companionshipave.html">companionshipave.html</A></FONT> </A> Naturally, the still happy did not want to be possessed, and so for protection, Pumkin with hideous candle-lit faces were carved out of turnips and carried as lanterns to scare away the malevolent spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="companionshipot.html">companionshipot.html</A></FONT> </A> Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the spirits, other accounts of Celtic before today debunk these stories as myth.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="companionshiply.html">companionshiply.html</A></FONT> </A> Naturally the still happy did not want to be possessed, so on the night of October 31st, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="companionshipiss.html">companionshipiss.html</A></FONT> </A> They would then dress up in all manor of ghoulish costumes and noisily parade around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away evil spirits looking for bodies to possess.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="companionshipit.html">companionshipit.html</A></FONT> </A> It was also believed that on that evening, Saman , the lord of the dead, called forth hosts of evil spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="companionshiplight.html">companionshiplight.html</A></FONT> </A> Samhain is also the Celtic Druid New Year.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="companionshipole.html">companionshipole.html</A></FONT> </A> Other accounts say that Druids customarily lit bonfires on Dark night, for the purpose of warding off all these spirits.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="companionshipsen.html">companionshipsen.html</A></FONT> </A> Those fires were built on top of hills so that the spirits find their way.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="companionshipast.html">companionshipast.html</A></FONT> </A> Also, it was customary to light a fire in the household hearth which would burn continuously until the first day of the following Spring.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="companionshiprch.html">companionshiprch.html</A></FONT> </A> Suitable eating and shelter was provided for these spirits or else they would cast a spell, cause havoc, steal infants, destroy crops, kill farm animals and create terror as they haunted the happy.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="companionshipwon.html">companionshipwon.html</A></FONT> </A> The spirits demanded placating by giving them a type of worship and offerings, (This is the thought action that Trick-or-Treat emulates today.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dignityave.html">dignityave.html</A></FONT> </A> It is also said that it not originated with the Irish Celts, but with the ninth-century European custom called Souling - Walpurgisnacht, or the eve of the St.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dignityot.html">dignityot.html</A></FONT> </A> Walpurgis Day).</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dignityly.html">dignityly.html</A></FONT> </A> On November 2nd, All Souls Day, people would walk from village to village begging for Souls Cakes (seeBelgium), made out of square pieces of bread with currants.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dignityiss.html">dignityiss.html</A></FONT> </A> The Pumkin custom probably comes from an Irish folklore.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dignityit.html">dignityit.html</A></FONT> </A> As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dignitylight.html">dignitylight.html</A></FONT> </A> Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the Devil up on the tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dignityole.html">dignityole.html</A></FONT> </A> Jack made a deal with the Devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dignitysen.html">dignitysen.html</A></FONT> </A> The folklore further says, that after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the Devil.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dignityast.html">dignityast.html</A></FONT> </A> Instead, the Devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dignityrch.html">dignityrch.html</A></FONT> </A> The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="dignitywon.html">dignitywon.html</A></FONT> </A> The Irish used turnips as their Pumkin originally, but when the immigrants came to America, the found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="multilevelcarecentreave.html">multilevelcarecentreave.html</A></FONT> </A> It is also believed that Samhain is also the time of the year for getting rid of weaknesses.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="multilevelcarecentreot.html">multilevelcarecentreot.html</A></FONT> </A> On a piece of parchment paper write your weaknesses or bad habits you would like to loose.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="multilevelcarecentrely.html">multilevelcarecentrely.html</A></FONT> </A> Meditate on these weaknesses and how your life will be improved on loosing them.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="multilevelcarecentreiss.html">multilevelcarecentreiss.html</A></FONT> </A> Then burn the parchment paper, preferable in the ritual fire, thank the Lord and Lady, and continue on with your celebration.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="multilevelcarecentreit.html">multilevelcarecentreit.html</A></FONT> </A> There are many traditionally believes and customs associated with Samhain, most notable that night was the time of the wandering dead.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="multilevelcarecentrelight.html">multilevelcarecentrelight.html</A></FONT> </A> Offerings of eating and drink to masked and costumed revelers, and the lighting of bonfires, continued to be practiced on October 31st, known as the Eve of All Saints', Eve of All Hallows or Hallow Even.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="multilevelcarecentreole.html">multilevelcarecentreole.html</A></FONT> </A> For example in Belgium an old custom was to prepare Cakes for the Dead , small white cake and cookies.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="multilevelcarecentresen.html">multilevelcarecentresen.html</A></FONT> </A> A cake was eaten for each spirit honored with the belief that the more cakes you ate, the more the dead would bless you.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="multilevelcarecentreast.html">multilevelcarecentreast.html</A></FONT> </A> England Guy Fawkes Day , November 5th is celebrated in ways reminiscent of Dark night.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="multilevelcarecentrerch.html">multilevelcarecentrerch.html</A></FONT> </A> Guy Fawkes was accused of attempting to blow up the House of Parliament on that day in 1605.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="multilevelcarecentrewon.html">multilevelcarecentrewon.html</A></FONT> </A> He was apprehended, hung, drawn, and quartered.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="2"><A HREF="36814762676.html">36814762676.html</A></FONT> 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