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The History of Halloween For most cultures, the beginning of Autumn's dying season traditionally initiates a time of reflection about those who have passed away. In Northern Britain, the words ghost and guest (geist) are the same word. In isolated and mountainous Celtic villages, dead relatives were disinterred and their skulls reverently painted, so they could rejoin the family during October "dumb" feasts. With little space to spare for burial, these skulls would be stacked and saved for future in eerie rooms. Other world cultures celebrate the end of harvest with a nighttime wander to either welcome or frighten away roving spirits, while some festivals include door-to-door begging to benefit children and the poor. Mexico's Day of the Dead on November second wondrously combines honoring the dead--by tidying graveyards and offering food to ancestors--with the playful and macabre preponderance of sugar skulls and paper mache skeletons. In the United States, the...

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