> From: Robert Seeberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > IIRC, All Hallow's Eve is the night before All Saints Day a 
> Catholic (?)
> > holiday.  On All Hallow's Eve, the dead can walk the earth 
> or something
> like
> > that.  So it isn't really pagan.
> >
> > Or I could be wrong...
> >
> No, you are right .
> But it is also the feast of Samhain, when the dead walk the earth.
> 
> Actually the catholics coopted the holiday to satisfy the 
> newly converted
> Celts.

Ah!  That's right.  I knew that.  Really I did.  

Shouldn't post late at night...  Or at least without checking Google
first...

 - jmh
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