European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                H e r s t r i p e u r can blame e o a that you need to maybe even about How tonight goings on first got going by Morton staff writer the cd libration of halloween by americans is a custom inherited like Irish Only earlier from our celtic but even the celts got it second adopting it from the a very ancient race who appear to have spent most of their time fending off the Powers of or bad the druids worshipped the Sun but to keep on the Safe Side they were also very respectful to lord of the and held a bipartisan on their new years nov to Honor the idea was to thank the Sun for the Harvest and ask Sambain to Lay the main Celebration is supposed to have been held in where the druids had erected a primitive sort of Madison Square part of which still stands and on the feast of Sambain but turned out for the this included All Sam Hains District the male and who handled his dirty work All Over the world they arrived the night travelling aboard distaff and similar aircraft and held a pre Holiday these people were a pretty crude lot and some of the things that went on at their hoedown rent fit to but that How halloween was to make it Sam Hains followers brought their pets with them werewolves and All these were former human beings whose souls had been confined to bodies of lower animals As punishment for their sins and youd better believe this didst help their a part of the conventions order of Busi Ness was to induct new a ritual that culminated with bestowing the official Emblem of Witch Hood a Pinch in by a never mind left a lifelong and since witches presumably never that was some owe protocol was omit of the the leprechauns and gremlins needed to drink and make they Woly Tore the joint and some of the stuff they ate at these cookouts was the they had no Betty Crocker to on Down to but Whf shake Speare seems to have dug no he recorded it in act scene in Toft Scab of tooth Witch maw and Gulf of the Ravind sat sea Root of Hemlock digged i the dark of Turk and tartars tar of birth strangled babe int the whole but it will e you an it is also known that witches indulged u Happy powders As deadly night and Indian a scholar has since speculated that with ail these tranquillisers witches Only thought they were soaring Over on when christianity came to Europe tha Celebration of the witches Sabbath was which made hardly any differ 1 became All saints Day or All hallows Day or and tha night became but it was hard to convince the Man in the Street that the nether people we rent still holding their annual so they went on with their old customs of either appeasing the demons or trying to scare them away with bonfires and a lot of people in Odd Corners of the world still believe in for that but halloween nowadays has be come kid although the kids Are making like the druids Only watered Down Forny the for came about because pumpkins were More readily available than the human and animal skulls used As decoration by the Stone henge ducking for apples or trying to bite an Apple hanging by a string Are traditions brought to America by the Irish and but have nothing whatever to do with Way Back in time Hal Loween also took on Sadie Hawkins Day and it was the night when the unmarried girl tried to get a fix on who to become her permanent it was on halloween that an Irish girl would pare an Apple in one continuous whirl the Peel around her head a few times and drop it to the where it was supposed to form the initial of her not the Best inside per but a up in Scotland it was the custom for tha spinster to open ail the doors and windows and then set an egg on the stove to Fry the theory was that mister Man would come Ruri Hing in the door and turn the egg this the doll not Only got a but a Good Thrifty Guy who  Bear to see even an utter strangers history Doest Tell us or if it i cant find the place just How ducking for apples paid off in but it May Tjw noteworthy that the Irish had a Hal form Olefs Call it gaelic an Apple was fixed to one end of a still a and a lighted Candle to the then the stick was suspended from the ceiling and Point was to bite the Apple without burning your and i  try it for tricks treat also comes to us from you guessed it the Auld in the Early Days the peasants donned masks on Hal Loween and went around to front doors begging Money to underwrite a tha begging was but with an undercurrent of just As it is and gave Rise to the door Gate stealing and other shenanigans that have plagued generations of oldsters and still Delight Small those Irish october 1956 the stars and stripes u