HAPPY HALLOWEEN all you wonder women out there!! Tonight's that night, spooky winds, werewolves, vampires, and ghosts. It's so devilish you could just squeal! (Please don't)
Are there any of any of you GOING as our mentor this Halloween? Please, take photos for prosperity. (Wonder women like photos for prosperity).
Halloween is a fun holiday, let's face it. While Thanksgiving and Christmas and Hanukkah are mainly focused on family get-togethers and behaving nicely, Halloween is a night to be spent with friends, candy, and unmannerly behavior. What's more fun than that?! Plus the costumes really bring out the kid in everyone. Wonder women love costumes. It's a fact. Our namesake ran around in one. But besides all the fun perks, Halloween has a special history that might be fun to hear close to a roaring fire, no lights on, and after two or three scary movies.
All Hallows Eve was begun by the pagans (those zany pagans) as a ritual of betweens. It celebrating the end of spring (life) and the beginning of winter (death). The between time was believed so powerful that spirits could flow back and forth from their world to ours. There was no set date of All Hallows Eve, it was merely determined as the priests (druids) saw fit. So when you have neo-pagan friends telling you they celebrate Halloween as a religious holiday, throw THAT one in their face. Keeps them on their toes.
The spirit of Halloween simply wouldn't die. Ironic, yes. The Christian church tried time and time again to smash out Halloween as something evil and devil influenced. To be fair, there were no wonder women in the church in those days, so they wouldn't have been able to speak up for the sake of merriment and good times. So they continually frowned upon it. However, Halloween kept coming up with a vengeance. Pagans are hard to crack. So instead of destroy Halloween, Christians do what they do best, and assimilated Halloween into Christian ideas. Pretty tricky, huh?
At the turn of the last century was when the true fun was starting to be harvested from Halloween. Halloween parties and masks were introduced, and children ate it up. Halloween was purely a kid's holiday that grown ups liked to celebrate to please the little ankle biters. Eventually, wars broke out. They do that. Halloween got canned for the sake of money, and parents felt guilty and kids felt gypped. However, wars ended. They do that too. And in an odd twist, Halloween benefited the most. Halloween parties post-world war two were incredibly popular. Many scholars of culture studies believe the reason Halloween today is at such a high for popularity is because of the rich amount of love the baby boomers had for the holiday, and they simply can't let go. Neat, huh?
Stay tuned for more holiday season bits, and have an incredibly Happy Halloween, WW
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