"SAMHAIN"..("SOW IN")
"Trick or Treat For Halloween...Were Knocking On Your Door"..............Halloween Goes Back Over 2,000 Years... To The Ancient Celtics... Of Ireland...(Yep...The Irish Are The Ones...Who Started Halloween)...With Their Festival Of... "Samhain"......Pronounced... (Sow In).....................Back Then..The Celtic's New Year... Began On... November 1st...The Celtics Believed ...That The Night Before The New Year..(October 31st)...........The Boundaries Between The Living... And The Dead..... Would Become.... Very Blurry
And...They Believed That...On This Night Before "Samhain".... ......The Ghosts Of The Dead
Would Return To Earth
To Commemorate.... "Samhain"...The Celts Built Huge Bon Fires On The Eve Before November 1st
And Wore Costumes...(Usually Of Some Animal)
All Souls Day...Was Similar To "Samhain"...With Bon Fires...Parades
And Dressing Up As..... Saints...Angels ...Or Devils
All Saints Day Was Called... "All Hallows"..... Or ..."All Hallo Mas"...(From The Term...Alholowmesse)..(Middle English)
As Time Went On ..."All Hallows Eve"...And.... "Samhain".... Began To Evolve Into What It Is Called Today.....
Halloween
The Irish Immigration To America .... After The 1850s... And Onward.... Brought...And Reinforced The Tradition Of Halloween With Them
And By The Late 1920s...Halloween... Began To Take... Full Hold..In America
The Only Song That I Can Think Of.... For Halloween ....Would Be
"The Monster Mash"
Maybe There Are Other Songs...................But I Wouldnt Know
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One thing - the tradition of dressing up and knocking on doors comes directly from Scotland, where the guisers ('kids in disguise') have been knocking on doors for centuries.
The Americans brought pumpkins to the table, so to speak - original lanterns were carved out of neeps (turnips)
Dedicated to you bro.
I would have played Creedence "big Wheels keep on turning...."
Don't mistake appreciation from far and wide. You're a legend brother
Classic brother
It's an Ozzy song but similar things. Actually, there's nothing similar to kiwis and ozzies. Barstards the lot of them
Roll out the barrel... lets have a barrel of fun...
Nam
"In Heaven There Is No Beer"
"That's Why We Drink It Here"
"And When Were Away From Here?"
"Well Our Friends Will Be Drinking All Of The Beer".....................