The Night HE Came Home.

:1pumpkin:
Halloween is one of the oldest holidays with origins going back thousands of years. The holiday we know as Halloween has had many influences from many cultures over the centuries. From the Roman's Pomona Day, to the Celtic festival of Samhain, to the Christian holidays of All Saints and All Souls Days.

Hundreds of years ago in what is now Great Britain and Northern France, lived the Celts. The Celts worshipped nature and had many Gods, with the sun God as their favorite. It was "he" who commanded their work and their rest times, and who made the earth beautiful and the crops grow.

The Celts celebrated their New Year on November 1st. It was celebrated every year with a festival and marked the end of the "season of the sun" and the beginning of "the season of darkness and cold."

On October 31st after the crops were all harvested and stored for the long winter the cooking fires in the homes would be extinguished. The Druids, the Celtic priests, would meet in the hilltop in the dark oak forest (Oak trees were considered sacred). The Druids would light new fires and offer sacrifices of crops and animals. As they danced around the fires, the season of the sun passed and the season of darkness would begin.


When the morning arrived the Druids would give an ember from their fires to each family who would then take them home to start new cooking fires. These fires would keep the homes warm and free from evil spirits.

The November 1st festival was called Samhain (pronounced "Sow-En"). The festival would last for 3 days. Many people would parade in costumes made from the skins and heads of their animals. This festival would become the first Halloween.
During the first century the Romans invaded Britain. They brought with them many of their festivals and customs. One of these was the festival know as Pomona Day, named for their Goddess of fruits and gardens. It was also celebrated around the 1st of November. After hundreds of years of Roman rule the customs of the Celtic's Samhain festival and the Roman Pomona Day mixed becoming 1 major fall holiday.

The next influence came with the spread of the new Christian religion throughout Europe and Britain. In the year 835 AD the Roman Catholic Church would make November 1st a Church holiday to honor all the Saints. This day was called All Saint's Day, or Hallowmas, or All Hallows. Years later the Church would make November 2nd a holy day. It was called All Souls Day and was to honor the dead. It was celebrated with big bonfires, parades, and people dressing up as saints, angels and devils.

But the spread of Christianity did not make people forget their early customs. On the eve of All Hallows, Oct. 31, people continued to celebrate the festivals of Samhain and Pomona Day. Over the years the customs from all these holidays mixed. October 31st became known as All Hallow Even, eventually All Hallow's Eve, Hallowe'en, and then - Halloween.

The Halloween we celebrate today includes all of these influences, Pomona Day's apples, nuts, and harvest, the Festival of Samhain's black cats, magic, evil spirits and death, and the ghosts, skeletons and skulls from All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day.

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HALLOWEEN ---------
Bonfires burning bright,
Pumpkin faces in the night,
I remember Halloween,
Dead cats hanging from poles,
Little dead are out in droves,
I remember Halloween,
Brown leafed vertigo,
Where skeletal life is known,
I remember Halloween,
This day anything goes,
Burning bodies hanging from poles,
I remember Halloween, Halloween,
Halloween, Halloween, Halloween,
Candy apples and razor blades,
Little dead are soon in graves,
I remember Halloween,
This day anything goes,
Burning bodies hanging from poles,
I remember Halloween, Halloween,
Halloween, Halloween, Halloween,
Halloween, Halloween, Halloween - The Misfits





HALLOWEEN II ------------
Formulae ueteres exorsismorum et excommunicationum,
Strigas et fictos lupos credere,
Daemon pellem lupinam In trunco quodam cauae,
Arboris occultandum,
Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween Metamorphoses lycanthropie Possunt inquam,
Metamorphoses lycanthropie Possunt inquam,
Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween
(The above is nonstandard Latin. Translation: "Ancient formulas of exorcisms and excommunications that witches and those made wolves believe I maim now the demon clothed in wolfskin Having to hide in the hollow of a tree I believe that they so can be changed.")



Tomorrow, it is Halloween. :1pumpkin:

Hehehehehhehehehehehehhehehe, Happy Halloween.


:1pumpkin:

BOO !


Scared ya didn't I :D HEHEHE!










Happy Halloween Everybody!

Eg ;)

Halloween is my most favorite day... :D

Have celebrated for many years now....

We have the house decorated with gravestones, ghosts, witches, skeletons, cobwebs, spiders.....skulls, and many pumpkins. A scary cd playing in the garage...

We always set a place outside for the dead, with food, aglass of wine, a cig and doob in the astray, a glass of scotch or brandy....remembering our friends and reletives that have passed on.

Happy New Year...to my pagan friends

MLF

So pretty much your house looks like my room does all year round? Heh, I have Pumpkin candles everywhere, skeletons, Resin Pumpkins, Ghost houses, lots of stuff. I leave it up all the time, everyday is Halloween.

For the newbies who weren't here the last three years, Halloween threads are MINE.


Oh by the way, It's October again, so, I have now been a member of AntiOnline for Three years. My anniversary is October. So, Here is to THREE YEARS OF BLOOD, GORE, AND HORROR TO THE CORE.

:)

Hi gore,


Three years in October? But I was under the impression you started the Net and allowed AO to exist....OPPS!...Sorry!...that was Al Gore :D

Eg ;)



Congrats! On the three years!

Should I start singing Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater :D

Registered: 10-02-2002


;) Three years bitches. :)

A Halloween Home with Games


http://www.cavernsofblood.com/
Halloween Caverns Of Blood presents Halloween and Horror games


Bhahahaaaaaaaahaaaaaa!

I have even decorated my dog this year. I have dyed her (normally white) hair bright orange and bright green (with washable hair dye btw).
And I am thinking about using them (the dyes) on myself and making my moustache 1/2 orange and 1/2 green. Even thinking about doing the same to my hair on opposite sides.

Poor kids that come to my door for candy will be scared silly by the demented old man and the orange and green poodle dog.

5 years ago on halloween, I met a wonderfull girl..
Since then we allways partied hard at halloween..
To show how hard..
These were taken of me and my wife last night..

http://jinx.etv.cx/simpsons.jpg
http://karin.etv.cx/images/IMG_0182.JPG

I'm still yellow !

Doh!


HAhahahahahahahahhahahahahaha.

Well, this is damn cool, Halloween is cool..... and we are preparing for a metal gig, this would possibly be the coolest Halloween ever, for me, damn zombies. :D

Happy one for everybody ....

Care to scare ... ;)

Any of you guys get AMC?

Monsterfest has been on for like a whole week or more and I haven't slept lol. Monster Movies all night and all day.

/me

Goes to send Gore one of my famous halloween IRS letters :cool: :eek: :D

Oh...Halloween…

Scaring the crap out of each other keeps the blood running through the veins like it should be. If you just sit around and don’t enjoy the moment, then your blood will turn to sludge. One year I sat on the porch with a dead cow’s leg bone covered up with my jeans and straped to that was a bags full of red jello and ketsup. I was all painted up with the glow paint, had a black light hooked to a motion detector and stuff. When the older trick or treaters would come up, the lights would come on and I’d take my axe and start chopping on what appeared to be my leg. Bone pieces, jello and ketsup would fly everywhere. Ahhhhh, the screams of fear echoing through the night… :eek:

Happy Haunting

We organized a Halloween party last friday, 106 tickets were sold so it was pretty good. I like halloween.

so..happy haloween everybody.

Hey folks, happy halloween!

Nothing like kicking off a Halloween weekend than with a good concert, and that's what I did last night. :) I run this little coffee shop bar thing here in my dorm every Saturday and we get a new, local band every week, but this week I spent more money and got Randi Russo to come, and had a blast. It's actually her birthday, too, so everyone say happy birthday to Randi! :-D

Happy Halloween, again, folks. Have a good one!

Buahahahahahaha I got JehnX to come here. ;)

Next up :

Pwaring. Get your ass here slut.


:)

And as if by magic...

Halloween is that time of year when lots of annoying kids constantly knock at the door asking for free sweets whilst dressed in annoying costumes. I hate it.

Having said that, I am going on a fancy dress pub crawl on Monday...

But I got you to post ;) Bahahahahahah

it's my day of, and i got tomorrow off. {The joys of being your own boss}.
So looks like i'm going to start celebrating Halloween with a shiat load of piss and a big arse P.A.R.T.Y

Happy Halloween gore, we all know this is your favourite time of the year, it's like a christmas for you huh.?

Happy Halloween everyone theres a show in britain called most haunted and there airing live from the web in search of Jack The Ripper some creepy **** happens in it http://www.mosthauntedlive.net/

Buahahahahahahaha.... I know what I'm going to be for Halloween! Arrested.... lol. Public intoxication lol. Prod it's about damn time you got here. And thanks everyone for the kind wishes. Halloween isn't Christmas for me, mainly because I love Christmas too. It's very special obviously, and the overall theme of me as a persona, Halloween mixed with Christmas, is me.

Summer has died, Winter has murdered him.

Hi Gore

A little buddy to help you through Devils Night ;) http://content.collegehumor.com/medi...s/skeleton.wmv

I already have one, it's called super glue and construction paper. Draw a swear word in super glue on a car windsheild, put paper on it, leave. Person wakes up, sees the paper, and pulls it off and the word is there until you shatter that glass.

Our favorite over in Windsor was to tie two metal (aluminum) garbage cans together and run the line across a road, preferably a road with few street lights, man what a noise. :D

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NP: The Misfits - Monster Mash - Live

:)

Happy halloween !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

w00t! It's Halloween!! Actually, I couldn't care less about the "holiday". :p

But....it *is*a great excuse to be goofy...without having to explain yourself. We have piles of candy here at work...everyone is dressed up. *is taking pictures* HR just brought in a gigantic bucket of free Halloween toys.

*enjoys having a day to be goofy*

So THAT'S why you Married Neg ;) (He got me in a tutorial thread, had to give him a smack on the ass back somehow ;) )

Happy Halloween Mel und Dries.

This year... I dressed up as a homosexual.

So you got a hair cut? ;)

Funny you should mention that... yeah I did.

Lol, me too man. I got the sides of my head and the back of it re-shaved. Not a copy of Michael Graves, mine looks better. And I did some curly trimming. Lol. Kind of itches .... Lol.

Right after I had my haircut some guy said, Nazi punks **** off... then I laughed.

I love that song. How many DK albums you got?

Gore.......................

He probably has far fewer than the times that he has been banned from this site :D

Allow me to introduce you to |The|Specialist, in his latest reincarnation :cool:

dunno... I found a few and a dildo in my cereal bowl then Rocky the clown hit on me.

By the way... I didn't mean to upset any nazis. :)

I know it's him. and that is a DAMN awesome album dude.

Was it the signature that gave it away?

No, I have sigs turned off. I just knew.