{"id":169,"date":"2022-11-01T05:21:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T05:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:16:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:16:41","slug":"bibliography-find-out-why-halloween-is-christian-not-pagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/01\/bibliography-find-out-why-halloween-is-christian-not-pagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween is Christian not pagan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Resources for understanding why Halloween is Christian not pagan, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DnAAtX8CSCc\" title=\"\">the true history of Halloween<\/a>. Every year at Halloween we see memes and articles alleging its pagan origin in Samhain, supposedly an ancient Celtic festival. However, this simply isn\u2019t true. Professional historians have long since debunked this claim, which was based on faulty research from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. In fact, there is no evidence for the festival of Samhain in the pre-Christian Celtic era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Halloween isn&#039;t pagan &amp; has Christian origins\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DnAAtX8CSCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Barr, Beth Allison. \u201cOpinion | Guess What? Halloween Is More Christian than Pagan.\u201d <em>Washington Post<\/em>, 28 October 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2016\/10\/28\/guess-what-halloween-is-more-christian-than-pagan\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2016\/10\/28\/guess-what-halloween-is-more-christian-than-pagan\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bender, Jacob L. <em>Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature<\/em>. Springer Nature, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fimi, Dimitra. \u201cSamhain or Halloween? The \u2018Ancient Celtic Year\u2019 in Contemporary Children\u2019s Fantasy.\u201d <em>Dimitra Fimi<\/em>, 28 October 2019. <a href=\"http:\/\/dimitrafimi.com\/2019\/10\/28\/samhain-or-halloween-the-ancient-celtic-year-in-contemporary-childrens-fantasy\/\">http:\/\/dimitrafimi.com\/2019\/10\/28\/samhain-or-halloween-the-ancient-celtic-year-in-contemporary-childrens-fantasy\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Demacopoulos. \u201cGregory the Great and the Pagan Shrines of Kent.\u201d <em>Journal of Late Antiquity<\/em> 1.2 (2008): 353\u201369. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/jla.0.0018\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/jla.0.0018<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HKIM1. \u201cThe Pagan Origins of Halloween \u2013 The Acronym | IMSA\u2019s Official Student Newspaper,\u201d 25 October 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2020\/10\/22\/the-pagan-origins-of-halloween\/\">https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2020\/10\/22\/the-pagan-origins-of-halloween\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hutton, Ronald. \u201cHalloween? It\u2019s More than Trick or Treat.\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>, 28 October 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/oct\/28\/halloween-more-than-trick-or-treat-origins\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/oct\/28\/halloween-more-than-trick-or-treat-origins<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014. <em>Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain<\/em>. Oxford: OUP Oxford, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kiger, Patrick J. \u201cHow the Early Catholic Church Christianized Halloween.\u201d <em>HISTORY<\/em>, 27 October 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/halloween-samhain-celts-catholic-church\">https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/halloween-samhain-celts-catholic-church<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lang, Cady. \u201cHow Halloween Traditions Are Rooted in the Ancient Pagan Festival of Samhain.\u201d <em>Time<\/em>, 30 October 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5434659\/halloween-pagan-origins-in-samhain\/\">https:\/\/time.com\/5434659\/halloween-pagan-origins-in-samhain\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leahy, A.H. <em>Heroic Romances of Ireland<\/em>. Vol. 1. London: D. Nutt, 1905.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Neill, Tim. \u201cIs Halloween Pagan?\u201d <em>History for Atheists<\/em>, 17 October 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/historyforatheists.com\/2021\/10\/is-halloween-pagan\/\">https:\/\/historyforatheists.com\/2021\/10\/is-halloween-pagan\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pike, Sarah M. <em>Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community<\/em>. University of California Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rogers, Nicholas. <em>Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sandle, Doug. \u201cA Personal and Cultural Account of the Manx \u2018Halloween.\u2019\u201d <em>Treat or Trick? Halloween in a Globalising World<\/em>. Edited by Malcolm Foley and Hugh O\u2019Donnell. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilson, Luke J. \u201cIs Halloween a Pagan Holiday?\u201d <em>That Ancient Faith<\/em>, 30 October 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatancientfaith.uk\/home\/perma\/1509379860\/article\/should-christians-celebrate-halloween.html\">https:\/\/www.thatancientfaith.uk\/home\/perma\/1509379860\/article\/should-christians-celebrate-halloween.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resources for understanding why Halloween is Christian not pagan, and the true history of Halloween. Every year at Halloween we see memes and articles alleging its pagan origin in Samhain, supposedly an ancient Celtic festival. However, this simply isn\u2019t true. 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