News Weekly -- About Halloween

By Margaret Clark*

COVID 19 has jumbled us all up, And we all know that to be true. So much has changed in the past seven months. And we're almost at another presidency! So much has changed but at the same time, it feels like nothing at all has and is changing. We're about to go on to what may be a different president of this whole country! We've gone through so much politics, but here we still stand. We're holding on to our last grip.

We've only gone through a few minor holidays, the fourth of July, labor day, st. Patrick's day, etc. It seems crazy compared to how much politics is still going on. But Halloween is very soon on the horizon. Halloween has been a major fall holiday for centuries! Costumes, trick or treating, and candy galore! What kid wouldn't want the fun!? But we have come to the first Halloween in COVID times, and we don't know yet if it will be a good time or a bad time. But Haloween has gone back centuries.

It first originated as a Celtic festival named Samhain(pronounced so-hin) where people would wear masks all night. The Celts, who lived 2000 years ago in the land where Ireland is now. The Celts, United Kingdom, and northern France believed that on October 31’s at the Samhain the dead spirits would rise from the underworld to earth for one night. Which did slowly evolve into children going door to door either getting a scary trick or a sweet treat, making the phrase: trick or treat. Though nowadays the tricks have gotten less scary and the treats have gotten sweeter. You can find a haunted house or two on a busy Halloween night but you will almost definitely see every door giving out candy for kids holding their bags and buckets open.

*election news weekly will be published later today