Halloween refernce

[Steve Hooley]

        My boss was stationed on Taiwan during his military days - he stated
that there was a Day of the Dead, probably New Year but I'm not sure, in
which food was brought to the cemetery for the ancestors and left outside
the tombs. Firecrackers were also involved, which is why I think it might
have been New Years.
>At 11:24 AM 11/3/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>>On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Clemens Ruthner wrote:
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>>> In customs like Beggar's Night (mentioned by Lee Jennings) the actors 
>>> primarily represented the dead (gifts to the dead in ancient rituals), 
>>> not the poor. Christendom is as it seems responsible for those changes. 
>>
>>Wasn't this carried over from the Druid tradition of making sacrifices to
>>placate the dead?
>>
>>
>>Lewis
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>
>        That's debateable, and certainly such sacrifices weren't unique to
>the druids. The Roman perspective on history is what gives us that
>impression.  I do think that leaving food out for the dead was probably a
>pre-Christian custom and giving it to the poor was probably a later
>adaptation of that custom.
>
>
>                     K.A. Price
>		   KPrice2 at niu.edu
>	      z979592 at wheat.farm.niu.edu
>
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