Tricked, Not Treated

On ditching cheap candy and reconnecting with the true spirit of Halloween...

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Did you know that what is now Halloween ‘trick or treating’ was once called ‘souling’? I only learnt this recently. Children used to go from door to door, asking for food or money in exchange for songs or prayers on behalf of the dead.

Halloween’s origins are said to come from the Celtic festival Samhain, or ‘summer’s end’. It marked the culmination of harvest and the beginning of the winter season, a liminal time when the veil between the dead and the living would be particularly thin. During Samhain, it was customary to leave a place and food at the table for deceased loved ones—a practice echoed in other festivals and traditions around the world. Samhain’s celebration was subsequently incorporated into the Catholic Church’s celebration of All Saints’ Eve, with souling practised from the Middle Ages onward.

Why am I so fascinated by all this? Because so many of us have forgotten—or never knew—what this festival was originally about: remembering the dead, being together, sharing food and making space for the unseen but not forgotten. Today, instead of offering a song or a prayer, children promise not to play a prank on you so long as you give them sweets.

That, of course, is something of a devil’s bargain, for most sweets dished out these days are not good food at all. As a doctor and parent, I must admit I am uncomfortable with this tradition of plying children with gifts that, even in small amounts, are toxic to their little bodies.

It’s not just sugar that’s a concern. Today’s most popular sweets are full of strange chemicals that simply should not be going into people’s bodies.

I love the original spirit of Halloween as a community celebration in which we remember those we have loved and lost. I also love the spirit of exchange that once marked this night. What I can’t get on board with is giving children who come to my door sweets that I know do them harm.

What to do? I would suggest that we once again forge a Better Way. How that looks is up to each of us. Perhaps it is baking cookies with real ingredients to hand out to trick-or-treaters. Or even just buying better quality chocolate that contains actual chocolate (unlike Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups, which substitute cocoa butter for the less delicious-sounding Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate).

Or maybe go all out: reconnect with the original tradition of Samhain, light a fire in the garden, invite your friends and family and dance around it like the ancients.

Imagine it: music and dancing under the stars with the people we love, the spirits of our ancestors dancing with us. 🥰

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Let’s talk about Halloween. Many have adopted the idea that it’s bad or evil. It’s not. What it is is yet another hijacked tradition that has been perverted and inverted. It’s time to claim it back.

It is actually Samhain (Sow - inn), a Celtic / Druid fire festival signifying and celebrating Death and Rebirth. Death is a requirement for rebirth. It is not the end, but rather the start of a new beginning. This understanding is a fundamental principle missing from today’s consciousness. Killed off by the church, quite literally, it holds the key to being at peace with the natural cycles of life.

Samhain takes place at the
midpoint between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice.
It marked the end of the harvest and the descent into the darkest part of the year / shortest days with the least sunlight. It’s designation as “dark” is literal. (Everything revolved around the Sun and the Zodiac. Everything ACTUALLY still does, we just don’t understand it anymore because it’s been hidden from us.)

The Veil between realms is very thin during this time.
Celts dressed as animals and monsters to prevent being kidnapped by fairies and taken to other worlds.

I’m sure these traditions go back even further than the Celts and their priests and priestesses, the Druids. Or do the Druids themselves go back MUCH further than you‘ve been allowed to know?

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https://druidry.org/druid-way/teaching-and-practice/druid-festivals/samhain-festival


https://druidry.org/resources/tlachtga-and-the-ancient-roots-of-halloween-samhain

https://www.gaia.com/article/modern-paganism-13-rituals-celebrate-samhain

Oops. Scared off a few more. See what happens when you approach subjects that go against the church’s accepted teachings? 🤦‍♀️

Jeez, we have a long way to go.

You know, this being scared of Halloween candy thing has been going on a long time. Used to be razor blades and LSD. Now fentanyl.
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This is the first time we
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What are you pushing away from yourself as “totally unacceptable”?
What are you resisting?

There are answers there if you dare to look.

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