HALLOWEEN Where Did It Come From? - Part XI - Herman L Hoeh - October 1953

Herman L Hoeh

Halloween - the strangest holiday of the entire year! Every autumn, on the eve of November 1, children dressed as goblins, or as witches with broomsticks, knock on doors, announce "trick or treat," soap windows of schools and stores, tear down mailboxes, and give the police a great many headaches with their juvenile vandalism. It is a time when young people "let off steam." To perpetuate this spirit at Halloween with its frolicking fun, stores are filled with black and orange masks, with pumpkins and other gaudy decorations to attract the eye. Even some older people enjoy their games and frivolity. In this "enlightened" age, with ignorance and superstition supposedly banished, we find the nation still celebrating one of its most ridiculous holidays, with its goblins, the fear of black cats, and children masked as demons and witches. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library