history. England Guy Fawkes Day , November 5th is celebrated in ways reminiscent.

<BODY BGCOLOR="white" TEXT="black" LINK="blue" VLINK="blue" ALINK="blue" > <P><FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" SIZE="2"><A HREF="http://www.inglewoodcarecentre.com/history/halloween.htm"><H1></H1></A>. England Guy Fawkes Day , November 5th is celebrated in ways reminiscent of Dark night. Samhuinn was such a time. 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 . The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer. The Celts, as well as Britain, France and Germany, honored Samhain , a Druid God of the dead. Samhain is also the Celtic Druid New Year. 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. 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. 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. 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. The spirits demanded placating by giving them a type of worship and offerings, (This is the thought action that Trick-or-Treat emulates today. A cake was eaten for each spirit honored with the belief that the more cakes you ate, the more the dead would bless you. <a href="http://www.yahoo.com" target="_blank"><img src="image3.gif" width="1" height="1"></a> England Guy Fawkes Day , November 5th is celebrated in ways. </FONT></P> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://www.inglewoodcarecentre.com/history/halloween.htm"><IMG SRC="image2.gif" BORDER="1" ALT=" England Guy." width="201" height="71"></A></P> </BODY>