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Book: Pagan Religions in Five Minutes

Chapter: 48. Are Halloween and Easter Pagan Festivals?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.45515

Blurb:

All Hallows Eve, which became Halloween, is the evening before All Saints Day in Roman
Catholicism. The following day is for the remembrance of the dead. For Pagans it is a time when the “veil” is thin between the living and the dead and marks the end of summer. Easter, too, is a blend of Christian and “pagan” traditions when “light” and “dark” are in balance at the Equinox.

Chapter Contributors

  • Jenny Butler (butler.jennifer@gmail.com - jennybutler) 'University College Cork'