Post by Daniel on Oct 31, 2017 9:51:04 GMT -5
Halloween’s History of Pagan Devil Worship Scaring Off Jewish, Christian Trick-or-Treaters
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz October 31, 2017
“When you enter the land that Hashem your God is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abhorrent practices of those nations.” Deuteronomy 18:9
Though the secular holiday of Halloween has become enormously popular, its pagan roots go very deep, and some of its more disturbing dark-magic elements may be making a comeback. With connections to necromancy, religious Jews do not participate in what most Americans see as a family-oriented holiday, and many Christians are following suit.
Halloween began as Samhain (pronounced Sow-in), one of the four main pagan holidays celebrated by the Celtics, who lived in areas of Ireland, northern England, and France before Romans conquered the region in the first century CE. Samhain marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the “darker half” of the year.
Similar to modern Halloween, Celtic pagans dressed up in costumes on Samhain and lit bonfires. Samhain was seen as a liminal time, when the boundary between this world and the spirit world could more easily be crossed. As such, it was an auspicious time for summoning dark spirits to aid in necromancy, communicating with the dead to foretell the future, a practice explicitly prohibited in the Bible.
Let no one be found among you who consigns his son or daughter to the fire, or who is an augur, a soothsayer, a diviner, a sorcerer, one who casts spells, or one who consults ghosts or familiar spirits, or one who inquires of the dead. Deuteronomy 18:10-11
Samhain was celebrated from sundown October 31 to sundown November 1, as the Celtic day began and ended at sunset. People believed that on Samhain, spirits roamed the world, and gifts of food and wine would be left out to appease the spirits. When people left their houses at night, they wore masks so they would be mistaken for fellow ghosts.
In what is widely believed to be an effort to subsume the Celtic pagan holiday into the Christian religion, in 1000 C.E. the church declared November 2 All Souls’ Day, a day honoring the dead. The night before All Souls’ Day was re-adopted in the Celtic region, with the name changed from Samhain to All Hallows’ Eve.
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There are in fact strong hints that even in popular culture the occult and pagan aspects of the holiday have not been left behind. Due to the myth that black cats bring bad luck, they have the lowest adoption rates of any other pet and the highest euthanasia rates. Despite this troubling statistic, in many states, people seeking to adopt black cats from animal shelters before Halloween are routinely turned away for fear the feline will be used in a black-magic ritual.
read full article
www.breakingisraelnews.com/97069/halloweens-history-pagan-devil-worship-scaring-off-jewish-christian-trick-treaters/
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz October 31, 2017
“When you enter the land that Hashem your God is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abhorrent practices of those nations.” Deuteronomy 18:9
Though the secular holiday of Halloween has become enormously popular, its pagan roots go very deep, and some of its more disturbing dark-magic elements may be making a comeback. With connections to necromancy, religious Jews do not participate in what most Americans see as a family-oriented holiday, and many Christians are following suit.
Halloween began as Samhain (pronounced Sow-in), one of the four main pagan holidays celebrated by the Celtics, who lived in areas of Ireland, northern England, and France before Romans conquered the region in the first century CE. Samhain marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the “darker half” of the year.
Similar to modern Halloween, Celtic pagans dressed up in costumes on Samhain and lit bonfires. Samhain was seen as a liminal time, when the boundary between this world and the spirit world could more easily be crossed. As such, it was an auspicious time for summoning dark spirits to aid in necromancy, communicating with the dead to foretell the future, a practice explicitly prohibited in the Bible.
Let no one be found among you who consigns his son or daughter to the fire, or who is an augur, a soothsayer, a diviner, a sorcerer, one who casts spells, or one who consults ghosts or familiar spirits, or one who inquires of the dead. Deuteronomy 18:10-11
Samhain was celebrated from sundown October 31 to sundown November 1, as the Celtic day began and ended at sunset. People believed that on Samhain, spirits roamed the world, and gifts of food and wine would be left out to appease the spirits. When people left their houses at night, they wore masks so they would be mistaken for fellow ghosts.
In what is widely believed to be an effort to subsume the Celtic pagan holiday into the Christian religion, in 1000 C.E. the church declared November 2 All Souls’ Day, a day honoring the dead. The night before All Souls’ Day was re-adopted in the Celtic region, with the name changed from Samhain to All Hallows’ Eve.
...
There are in fact strong hints that even in popular culture the occult and pagan aspects of the holiday have not been left behind. Due to the myth that black cats bring bad luck, they have the lowest adoption rates of any other pet and the highest euthanasia rates. Despite this troubling statistic, in many states, people seeking to adopt black cats from animal shelters before Halloween are routinely turned away for fear the feline will be used in a black-magic ritual.
read full article
www.breakingisraelnews.com/97069/halloweens-history-pagan-devil-worship-scaring-off-jewish-christian-trick-treaters/
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