Halloween lore promises that an abundance of witches, princesses, ghosts and the like will be out haunting the streets Oct. 31. The annual opportunity to spend the night in costume dates back 2,000 years to the Celtic festival of Samhain. However, common images of death and witchcraft have given modern-day Halloween celebrations a bad rap in some churches.
Belief in brief: Halloween
A section of faith facts
Sunday, October 22, 2006 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 5:52 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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