Occult History of Halloween

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Halloween:A Covenant with Death and with Hell

When you hear the word "halloween" what images appear? What "spirit" is invoked at the whisper of Halloween? Halloween openly promotes death, devils, witches and flagrant "appearances of evil" (1 Thess. 5:22). Halloween leaves most people scratching their heads questioning, "How and where did Halloween come from"? This article unearths the hellish tomb of Halloween to exhume its sinister "covenant with death and hell."

Halloween began over 2,000 years ago among the Celts and their pagan priests called the Druids. The Druids are, without question, history’s king of the occult. Witchcraft, Satanism, paganism and virtually all facets of the occult acquire instruction from the Druids. From the popular jack-o’-lantern, trick-or-treat, costumes, to the pranks, ghoulish ghosts, demons, goblins and witches – Halloween owes its morbid birth to the Druids.

Halloween—the day itself is of Druidic origin. (Myers, Robert J. Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays, p. 258)

The mystic rites and ceremonies with which Hallow’en was originally observed had their origin among the Druids. . . (Douglas, George William. The American Book of Days, p. 566)

The Druids celebrated two special nights of the year: Beltane and Samhain. Beltane took place on May 1 and marked the birth of summer. Samhain occurred on November 1 and signified the deathof summer. Samhain, a night celebrating death and hell, was the Druids most important ritual. It was a terrifying night of human sacrifices. And it was the original Halloween.

The Druids believed, during Samhain, the mystic veil separating the dead from the living opened. The Druids taught these roaming spirits loosed on Samhain went searching for a body to possess. The frightened Celts would masquerade as demons, evil spirits and ghosts, hoping to convince the roaming evil spirits, they were another evil spirit, and leave them alone. The Celts also prepared meals as "treats" to appease the evil spirits from "tricks" or malicious acts; hence our custom of "trick or treat." The Druids performed horrifying human sacrifices and other vile rituals during Samhain. Let there be no doubt—Samhain night was a terrifying "covenant with death, and with hell." And let there be no doubt – Samhain was the original Halloween night.

All histories of Halloween inevitably wind back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. . . (Skal, David J. Death Makes a Holiday: The Cultural History of Halloween, p. 20)

Halloween had its origins in the festival of Samhain among the Celts of ancient Britain and Ireland. (Encyclopedia Britannica 2005 "Halloween")

Halloween can be traced directly back to Samhain, the ancient Celtic harvest festival honoring the Lord of the Dead. (Thompson, Sue Ellen. Holiday Symbols and Customs, p. 251)

The rituals of the Druids reek from the deepest hell. Their most repulsive activities involve their human sacrifices of children on the night of Samhain or Halloween.

First-born sacrifices are mentioned in a poem in the Dindshenchas, which records that children were sacrificed each Samhain . . . (Rogers, Nicholas. Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, p. 17)

Halloween. That was the eve of Samhain . . . firstborn children were sacrificed. . . Samhain eve was a night of dread and danger. (National Geographic. May 1977, pp. 625-626)

The Druids would drink their victim’s blood and eat their flesh.

They [Druids] sacrificed victims by shooting them with arrows, impaling them on stakes, stabbing them, slitting their throats over cauldrons (and then drinking the blood). . . (Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience, p.167)

Therefore we cannot too highly appreciate our debt to the Romans for having put an end to this monstrous cult,whereby to murder a man was an act of the greatest devoutness, and to eat his flesh most beneficial. (Pliny, Natural History, xxx, 13)

The Druids "counted it an honourable thing" to eat their father’s flesh and perform incest with their mothers and sisters.

. . . since they are man-eaters as well as heavy eaters, and since, further, they count it an honourable thing, when their fathers die, to devour them, and openly to have intercourse, not only with the other women, but also with their mothers and sisters;. . . (Strabo, Geography)

May I remind you, this is what occurred on the original Halloween night! Today, Halloween lives and breathes with the foul stench of the diabolical Druids.

The Druids also celebrated the festival of Beltane. The word Beltane (Beltaine, Beltinne, Beltain, Beiltein) literally means the "fires of Bel." Bel is the same god called Baal, found over 80 times in the King James Bible. The Lord condemns Baal worship probably more than any other false "god."
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Is this a night that someone should be permitting their own children to celebrate and join in? Most definitely not.
 
Halloween:A Covenant with Death and with Hell


THE OCCULT & HALLOWEEN •



While Halloween masquerades as childish fun and frolic, it’s serious business in the occult world. Witchcraft, Wicca, Satanism and paganism believe, on the night of Halloween, devils and spirits are unleashed. They perform their most hideous and potent rituals on the night of Halloween.

Samhain: This is the "Witch’s New Year" and the primary Sabbat from which all others flow. (RavenWolf, Silver.Teen Witch, p. 42)

Halloween is one of the four major Sabbats celebrated by the modern Witch, and it is by far the most popular and important of the eight that are observed. . . Witches regard Halloween as their New Year’s Eve, celebrating it with sacred rituals. . . (Dunwich, Gerina. The Pagan Book of Halloween, p. 120)

Halloween is also among Satanism’s most cherished days. Anton LaVey, founder of The Church of Satan and author of The Satanic Bible writes:

After one's own birthday, the two major Satanic holidays are Walpurgisnacht (May 1st) and Halloween. (LaVey, Anton Szandor. The Satanic Bible, p. 96)

Satanic High Priestess Blanche Barton, on The Church of Satan web site, praises Halloween:

It [Halloween] gives even the most mundane people the opportunity to taste wickedness for one night. They have a chance to dance with the Devil . . . I see Satanists all over the world meeting in small groups this night and Hallowe’ens 500 years hence, to raise a glass to the Infernal Hosts. . .

The Satanic Calendar decrees for Halloween: "One of the two most important nights of the year. . . Blood and sexual rituals. Sexual association with demons. Animal and human sacrifice—male or female." (www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/satanic_calendar.htm)

Former occultist Johanna Michaelsen reveals, "Halloween is also a prime recruiting season for Satanists." (Michaelsen, Johanna. Like Lambs to the Slaughter, p. 192)

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See Johanna Michaelsen's video here on this thread - her testimony about her book - Like Lambs to the Slaughter.
 

• THE OBSCENE IN HALLOWEEN •

Halloween has always wallowed in the obscene. Its horrid history is paved with vandalism, destruction and wickedness. The sickening depravity of razor blades in apples and poisoned candies of the 1970’s was a clear testimony to the evil of Halloween.

Some say that Halloween brings out the evil side of human nature in certain individuals. The number of vandalism acts committed each year on Halloween certainly seems to support this. . . (Dunwich, Gerina. The Pagan Book of Halloween, p. 23)

Halloween has always been a night of perversion and inversion—a night where misrule rules and decadence masquerades as decency. Halloween’s "best kept secret" is its romantic love affair with homosexuals. Halloween was the golden key that unlocked the homosexual’s closet of perversion. Halloween’s spirit of inversion, bestowed the homosexuals one utopian night to publicly flaunt their decadence and perversion.

It is an opportunity to act out one’s desires or fantasies. . . Halloween is unquestionably a night of inversion. (Rogers, Nicholas. Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, p. 137)

Halloween has always been a night of misrule and the outrageous. In recent years, it has been adopted by the gay community in America. . . (Morgan, Sheena. The Real Halloween, p. 42)

The Halloween machine turns the world upside down. One’s identity can be discarded with impunity. Men dress as women, and vice versa. Authority can be mocked and circumvented. (Skal, David J. Death Makes a Holiday: The Cultural History of Halloween p. 17)

Halloween has done more for the current acceptance of homosexuality than any other event. Years of huge homosexual Halloween street parades of gaudy perversion and decadence in New York’s Greenwich Village, Washington, D.C,’s Georgetown, New Orleans’s French Quarter and the infamous Castro Street in San Francisco almost single handily detonated the current homosexual explosion.

Greenwich Village has a long, albeit erratic, history of impromptu Halloween celebrations, and there is undoubtedly a link between the recent emergence of such carnivalesque celebrations and the increasingly public nature of gay culture. . . (Santino, Jack. Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life, p. 194)

Yet it has been the gay community that has most flamboyantly exploited Halloween’s potential as a transgressive festival . . . Indeed, it is the gay community that has been arguably more responsible for Halloween’s adult rejuvenation. (Rogers, Nicholas. Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, p. 132)

For gay people, Halloween is a moment of utopian wishfulness . . . (Santino, Jack. Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life, p. 211)
Halloween:A Covenant with Death and with Hell
 

• THE OMEN OF HALLOWEN •

While many deem Halloween as harmless fun and fantasy, Halloween subtlety disarms our (and especially our children) discernment of witches and the occult. Halloween’s magic potion of "fun and frolic" transformed witches, demons, devils and evil incarnate into "fine folks." Over 1.2 million practicing and proud witches live in America. Witchcraft currently is the fastest growing religion in America. At some time, nearly every little girl becomes a witch on Halloween. Witch RavenWolf delights when a vulnerable little girl dresses as a witch on Halloween:

Today, just about every little girl in our society, at one time or another, has chosen to costume herself as a Witch. . . If you choose a Witch’s costume this Halloween . . . Hold your head up and wear your Witch’s garb proudly in their honor. (RavenWolf, Silver. Halloween: Customs, Recipes & Spells, p. 64)

Occult historian Jean Markale discloses Halloween bids more than childish dress-up. It is a pagan "initiatory journey" guided bysomeone [Satan] "hidden in the shadows," and none "return from Halloween innocent":

The passage into the world of Halloween is truly an initiatory journey. One does not return from it an innocent.But making the journey alone does not mean there was no guide, no initiator, someone who prompted the quest and who, sometimes hidden in the shadows, watches over the comings and goings of the neophyte through this labyrinth that is the Other World. (Markale, Jean. The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween, p. 127)

Dr. David Enoch, former senior consultant psychiatrist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital and the University of Liverpool, states:

Halloween practices open the door to the occult and can introduce forces into people’s lives that they do not understand and often cannot combat. . . (Parker, Russ. Battling the Occult, p. 35)

Halloween:A Covenant with Death and with Hell

 
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Halloween:A Covenant with Death and with Hell

When you hear the word "halloween" what images appear? What "spirit" is invoked at the whisper of Halloween? Halloween openly promotes death, devils, witches and flagrant "appearances of evil" (1 Thess. 5:22). Halloween leaves most people scratching their heads questioning, "How and where did Halloween come from"? This article unearths the hellish tomb of Halloween to exhume its sinister "covenant with death and hell."

Halloween began over 2,000 years ago among the Celts and their pagan priests called the Druids. The Druids are, without question, history’s king of the occult. Witchcraft, Satanism, paganism and virtually all facets of the occult acquire instruction from the Druids. From the popular jack-o’-lantern, trick-or-treat, costumes, to the pranks, ghoulish ghosts, demons, goblins and witches – Halloween owes its morbid birth to the Druids.

Halloween—the day itself is of Druidic origin. (Myers, Robert J. Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays, p. 258)

The mystic rites and ceremonies with which Hallow’en was originally observed had their origin among the Druids. . . (Douglas, George William. The American Book of Days, p. 566)

The Druids celebrated two special nights of the year: Beltane and Samhain. Beltane took place on May 1 and marked the birth of summer. Samhain occurred on November 1 and signified the deathof summer. Samhain, a night celebrating death and hell, was the Druids most important ritual. It was a terrifying night of human sacrifices. And it was the original Halloween.

The Druids believed, during Samhain, the mystic veil separating the dead from the living opened. The Druids taught these roaming spirits loosed on Samhain went searching for a body to possess. The frightened Celts would masquerade as demons, evil spirits and ghosts, hoping to convince the roaming evil spirits, they were another evil spirit, and leave them alone. The Celts also prepared meals as "treats" to appease the evil spirits from "tricks" or malicious acts; hence our custom of "trick or treat." The Druids performed horrifying human sacrifices and other vile rituals during Samhain. Let there be no doubt—Samhain night was a terrifying "covenant with death, and with hell." And let there be no doubt – Samhain was the original Halloween night.

All histories of Halloween inevitably wind back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. . . (Skal, David J. Death Makes a Holiday: The Cultural History of Halloween, p. 20)

Halloween had its origins in the festival of Samhain among the Celts of ancient Britain and Ireland. (Encyclopedia Britannica 2005 "Halloween")

Halloween can be traced directly back to Samhain, the ancient Celtic harvest festival honoring the Lord of the Dead. (Thompson, Sue Ellen. Holiday Symbols and Customs, p. 251)

The rituals of the Druids reek from the deepest hell. Their most repulsive activities involve their human sacrifices of children on the night of Samhain or Halloween.

First-born sacrifices are mentioned in a poem in the Dindshenchas, which records that children were sacrificed each Samhain . . . (Rogers, Nicholas. Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, p. 17)

Halloween. That was the eve of Samhain . . . firstborn children were sacrificed. . . Samhain eve was a night of dread and danger. (National Geographic. May 1977, pp. 625-626)

The Druids would drink their victim’s blood and eat their flesh.

They [Druids] sacrificed victims by shooting them with arrows, impaling them on stakes, stabbing them, slitting their throats over cauldrons (and then drinking the blood). . . (Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience, p.167)

Therefore we cannot too highly appreciate our debt to the Romans for having put an end to this monstrous cult,whereby to murder a man was an act of the greatest devoutness, and to eat his flesh most beneficial. (Pliny, Natural History, xxx, 13)

The Druids "counted it an honourable thing" to eat their father’s flesh and perform incest with their mothers and sisters.

. . . since they are man-eaters as well as heavy eaters, and since, further, they count it an honourable thing, when their fathers die, to devour them, and openly to have intercourse, not only with the other women, but also with their mothers and sisters;. . . (Strabo, Geography)

May I remind you, this is what occurred on the original Halloween night! Today, Halloween lives and breathes with the foul stench of the diabolical Druids.

The Druids also celebrated the festival of Beltane. The word Beltane (Beltaine, Beltinne, Beltain, Beiltein) literally means the "fires of Bel." Bel is the same god called Baal, found over 80 times in the King James Bible. The Lord condemns Baal worship probably more than any other false "god."
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Is this a night that someone should be permitting their own children to celebrate and join in? Most definitely not.

Your relating of this imaginary history of the Druids is an example of why you have very little credibility with rational people. What you "know" about the Druids is mainly based on myths and fantasies concocted long after they existed. The few contemporary accounts available come from their enemies the Romans. So all your opinions, all the energy you expend in fighting their effects on modern thought is all wasted time and worse than that your misinformation profoundly misleads other people. This is what wikipedia tells us we really know about the Druids.

Very little is known about the ancient druids. They left no written accounts of themselves, and the only evidence are a few descriptions left by Greek, Roman, and various scattered authors and artists, as well as stories created by later medieval Irish writers
While archaeological evidence has been uncovered pertaining to the religious practices of the Iron Age people, "not one single artefact or image has been unearthed that can undoubtedly be connected with the ancient Druids
Next to nothing is known for certain about their cultic practice, except for the ritual of oak and mistletoe as described by Pliny the Elder.
Many popular modern notions about druids have no connection to the druids of the Iron Age and are largely based on much later inventions or misconceptions.

Seems your entire worldview is based on myth, allegory, and fantastical stories of the supernatural. Which would be fine if you didn't preach to and judge other people based on that nonsensical worldview.
 
There is more than enough material on this thread to prove the danger of this satanic holiday and why no child should be permitted by their parents to participate in it. You are in denial.

A searcher? I think not. Searching for excuses perhaps but certainly not searching for the truth about October 31st or you would have already found it by now. You seem to have quite an in depth opinion of me for someone who just arrived on USMB 1 month ago, Searcher44.
 
Be afraid, Jeremiah. Be very afraid.

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I wonder what the fuck does she know about the occult? Even some occultists don't know about the "occult"
There is much material to look over, defcon. Feel free to start reading it and do not forget to view the videos either. These are people who were involved in Satanism, witchcraft, some of them for many, many years so they know what they are talking about. Even if you do not.
 
Jeremiah you say...
A searcher? I think not. Searching for excuses perhaps but certainly not searching for the truth about October 31st or you would have already found it by now. You seem to have quite an in depth opinion of me for someone who just arrived on USMB 1 month ago, Searcher44.


You have no right to judge another's search for the truth when that entire post about the Druids was based on lies. Even if I'm more generous and call them myths....they are still not the truth.
My opinion of you is the same as I have of any judgemental hate filled fundamentalist of the Christian, Islamic, Jewish or any other variety.
 
Guno, I have a question for you because you are Jewish and you should know the Scriptures. G-d is very clear that He wanted His people to teach their children His ordinances and not the ordinances of evil. So why would you believe it was acceptable to disregard the commands of Almighty God and teach children something that He clearly forbid? He forbids teaching our children evil practices, the keeping of days and times of the pagans - He forbids it! Are you going to obey G-d or do your own thing? If you choose to rebel against God and do your own thing? That is your decision but you are not going to speak for others who desire to follow God. I am grafted into the family of Abraham. I am a daughter of Abraham and as such? I am going to obey the ordinances of God. Not what man tells me is acceptable because "everyone else is doing it".. according to those standards Lot would have stayed on in Sodom with his family so they could all perish together.

it is written:
Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
Deuteronomy 8:11
There is no rapture in the Bible. You fundamentalist heretics are wrong about everything all the time, starting with your premise.

The topic is the occult history of Halloween. Let's stay on topic, guys. Thanks!
 
Jeri, you believe a lot of gibberish because you want to believe it. I haven't seen you post anything factual in this thread - just silly superstitious lies.

BUT

According to you, anyone who dresses up, hands out candy, goes to parties or celebrates in any way, is worshiping the devil that was invented thousands of years after the Pagan religions began.

Conversely and using your own logic, your own standard, every single modern day person who worships your god, prays, goes into those special tax-free buildings to whisper their demands to your god - ALL of them are guilty of torturing, murdering and burning innocent people. They're all guilty of wiping out people who did nothing more serious than treat illness and injury with herbs.

When your religion was invented, that is what they did. They forced people to say they agreed with the tenets of that new cult and those who refused or who were caught practicing their own beliefs were tortured and murdered.
 
Guno, I have a question for you because you are Jewish and you should know the Scriptures. G-d is very clear that He wanted His people to teach their children His ordinances and not the ordinances of evil. So why would you believe it was acceptable to disregard the commands of Almighty God and teach children something that He clearly forbid? He forbids teaching our children evil practices, the keeping of days and times of the pagans - He forbids it! Are you going to obey G-d or do your own thing? If you choose to rebel against God and do your own thing? That is your decision but you are not going to speak for others who desire to follow God. I am grafted into the family of Abraham. I am a daughter of Abraham and as such? I am going to obey the ordinances of God. Not what man tells me is acceptable because "everyone else is doing it".. according to those standards Lot would have stayed on in Sodom with his family so they could all perish together.

it is written:
Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
Deuteronomy 8:11
There is no rapture in the Bible. You fundamentalist heretics are wrong about everything all the time, starting with your premise.

The topic is the occult history of Halloween. Let's stay on topic, guys. Thanks!


Congrats on your new position as Official Moderator of the Religion Forum but he is right.

As a matter of fact, most of what you worship is not in the bible. That's why Jack Chick writes those awful comic books.
 
There is more than enough material on this thread to prove the danger of this satanic holiday and why no child should be permitted by their parents to participate in it. You are in denial.

A searcher? I think not. Searching for excuses perhaps but certainly not searching for the truth about October 31st or you would have already found it by now. You seem to have quite an in depth opinion of me for someone who just arrived on USMB 1 month ago, Searcher44.

Figuring out Jeremiah isn't rocket science.
 
Guno, I have a question for you because you are Jewish and you should know the Scriptures. G-d is very clear that He wanted His people to teach their children His ordinances and not the ordinances of evil. So why would you believe it was acceptable to disregard the commands of Almighty God and teach children something that He clearly forbid? He forbids teaching our children evil practices, the keeping of days and times of the pagans - He forbids it! Are you going to obey G-d or do your own thing? If you choose to rebel against God and do your own thing? That is your decision but you are not going to speak for others who desire to follow God. I am grafted into the family of Abraham. I am a daughter of Abraham and as such? I am going to obey the ordinances of God. Not what man tells me is acceptable because "everyone else is doing it".. according to those standards Lot would have stayed on in Sodom with his family so they could all perish together.

it is written:
Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
Deuteronomy 8:11

You buttress that reply to Guno with a quote from Deuteronomy. Do you pick and choose the laws, commandments, and statutes from Deuteronomy that you obey or do you follow all of them?
 

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