{"id":841,"date":"2011-10-19T18:08:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2011\/10\/19\/the-facts-behind-halloween-ancient-night-of-terror\/"},"modified":"2011-10-19T18:08:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T18:08:18","slug":"the-facts-behind-halloween-ancient-night-of-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/the-facts-behind-halloween-ancient-night-of-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"The Facts Behind Halloween \u2014 Ancient Night of Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">It is the last night of October. By the light of the moon, a small group of costumed figures move from house to house stating their demands with dire threats. Guarding some doorsteps are grimacing pumpkin heads glowing with burning candles\u2014made from human fat. Other doors drip with human blood. It is the night of Samhain, Celtic lord of the dead<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Perhaps in no other holiday does Satan so obviously honor himself and honor his war dead. The writer J. Garnier suggests that celebrations of suffering and death can be traced back to the ancient destruction of all of the Devil\u2019s human followers, as well as the giant bully sons of fallen angels, at the time of the Flood. Cultures the world over have festivals for the dead, \u201cheld worldwide on or almost the exact day on which, according to the Bible, the Flood took place: \u00a0the seventeenth day of the second month\u2014the month nearly corresponding with our November.\u201d\u2014The Worship of the Dead, by J. Garnier.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The Druids were no exception. On October 31, Samhain was said to release the spirits of the dead to mingle with the living. Druids roamed the streets with lanterns, and on coming to a house, they demanded money as an offering for Satan.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Halloween.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>read full article here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the last night of October. By the light of the moon, a small group of costumed figures move from house to house stating their demands with dire threats. Guarding some doorsteps are grimacing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}