Happy Halloween people!

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Halloween. Remember to check all your candy before eating. Hope no one gives you raisins!

PS. Remember toilet papering is funny but throwing eggs makes you an A-hole! Have fun but keep it clean people!

Since most people just think of Halloween as a day to dress up and gorge on candy, I thought I would provide a little Halloween background. Here is some Halloween information from Wikipedia. 
 
Also called Hallowe’en, All Hallows Eve, All Saints’ Eve, Samhain, Snap-Apple Night
Observed by Many Western nations, including the USA, Ireland, the United Kingdom especially Scotland, Canada, sometimes Australia, New Zealand and in the Saudi Aramco camps of Dhahran and Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia
Type Pagan, Religious, Cultural
Significance There are many sources of the significance of Halloween
Date October 31
Celebrations Trick-or-treating, Bobbing for apples, Costume parties, Carving jack-o’-lanterns, Egging of Houses in Toronto, Canada
Halloween is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets. It is celebrated in parts of the Western world, though most common in Canada, the United States, Puerto Rico, Ireland, and with increasing popularity in Australia, and sometimes celebrated in New Zealand. Halloween originated among the Celts in Ireland, Britain and France

The pagan belief that lasted the longest in Brittany, and is by no means dead yet, was the cult of the dead. Caesar said that the Celts of Gaul traced their ancestry from the god of death, whom he called Dispater. Now figures of l’Ankou, a skeleton armed with a spear, can be seen in most villages of Brittany. as the Pagan Celtic harvest festival, Samhain. Irish, Scots, Calan Gaeaf in Welsh and other immigrants brought versions of the traditions to North America in the 19th century. Most other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late 20th century.
The term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe’en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening before “All Hallows’ Day”[1] (also known as “All Saints’ Day”). In Ireland, the name was All Hallows’ Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve), and though seldomly used today, it is still a well-accepted label. Halloween was also sometimes called All Saints’ Eve. The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until it was appropriated by Christian missionaries and given a Christian interpretation. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit.

Halloween is often associated with the occult. Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when the spiritual world can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent (e.g. Catalan mythology about witches, Irish tales of the Sídhe).

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