Name the major holidays that aren't fabrications, or do you really believe there is a Santa Clause and an Easter Bunny? While your at it tell me what halloween is all about. Halloween? Well, it is a very ancient Celtic originated holiday.:) It is of Celtic Pagan origins. It was a time when they believed spirits of people who had died the previous year came back to Earth for one night. It was a holiday for honoring and remembering your dead and it marked the end of summer and beginning of winter. Watch, learn.     YouTube - The Haunted History Of Halloween 1/5                   YouTube - The Haunted History Of Halloween 2/5                   YouTube - The Haunted History Of Halloween 3/5                   YouTube - The Haunted History Of Halloween 4/5                   YouTube - The Haunted History Of Halloween 5/5                 https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t96631/   Night of the Living Dead     Long before the birth of Christianity, Celts were celebrating Samhain  the holiday marking the end of the harvest and the start of the Celtic new year.     It was a holiday when the boundaries between the natural and the supernatural were considered to be transparent and thin. It anticipated the coming of winter, says Nick Rogers, a history professor at York University in Toronto and author of Halloween: From Pagan Rituals to Party Night.     Samhain (pronounced SOW-in in Irish Gaelic and SAHV-in in Scottish) was a highly ambivalent time, says Edmund Kern, a history professor at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.     It was a good time for prognostication, a good time for telling the future, he says. But it was also a good time for the dead to settle a score.     When Evil Spirts Roam the Earth     And that's the problem when the boundaries between the two worlds break down. The ordinary rules of society break down, too  which can lead to some raucous behavior. But it also means that ghosts and other supernatural beings had an open passport to our world.     The dead liked to visit their earthly haunts on Samhain. There was a belief that the spirits, that people who had lived in the community, those spirits could come back to see how things were going, says Frederick Suppe, a medieval and Celtic historian at Ball State University in Indiana.     Some people might find comfort in the prospect of visits from their deceased loved ones. But if a dead person had reason to carry a grudge against you, watch out.     And, of course, ghosts weren't the only otherworldly beings wandering around at night. There are various kinds of evil spirits  some are just mean and nasty and horrible, says Suppe.     Of Bonfires and Giant Turnips     When St. Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland in the fifth century, he wasn't too keen on the pagan holiday. Eventually, the Church came up with the idea of fixing a feast day to revere all the Christian saints on Nov. 1  and the eve of the feast coincided with Samhain.    It might be reasonable to speculate that the feast of All Saints' was established to redirect pagan festivities, says Kern.    But some of the Samhain practices carried over to the celebration of All Hallows' Eve.    For instance, fire was very important in the celebration of Samhain.    You use fire as a way of repelling the evil spirits, says Suppe. This is where the jack-o'-lanterns and bonfires come from. We use pumpkins, but over in Wales they use giant turnips.    The ancient Celts didn't go trick-or-treating, but they did leave out appetizing morsels for the spirits.    To placate these spirits, you give them offerings of hospitality, says Suppe. If you harvest grain, you make something called a corn dolly. You leave the food as a symbol of hospitality.    Bobbing for apples also has some ancient roots. In all Celtic folklore, an apple is an element of the other world, says Suppe.    So when young women in a community wanted to find out who they would marry, each of them would choose a distinctive apple. The apples were tossed in a barrel of water, and the young men would try to grab them with their teeth. Whoever's apple they bit into would (in theory) be their future bride.