Having received numerous accolades for last week's history of culture, I have decided to favor all with a history of Halloween this week. I began my research yesterday after dinner, so I should be finished by the end of my last paragraph.
There's a lot of confusion about whether Halloween is a pagan holiday or a Christian holiday. The name means "the day before All Saint's Day," which is the day Christians celebrate all the spare saints in the spare saint bin, all your Tom, Dick, and Harry saints. By that account it's a Christian holiday. ...