Willkommen im Unheimlichen Oktober

Auch dieses Jahr wieder mal ein spezielles Halloween...

But Christ could not anticipate the craftiness of his followers. The triduum of Halloween, All Saints’ Day, and All Souls’ Day were brewed within recycled pagan casks — the Celtic festival of Samhain, Egyptian solar superstitions, devotions to Pomona, the Roman goddess of plenty — and overlaid onto older spiritual calendars that marked when the dead were unusually close to the quick, when “the gods whom Christ dethroned joined the ill-omened throng”. The Public Domain Review: A Melting Cauldron: The Book of Hallowe’en (1919)