The history of Halloween is a long and complicated one, and I will attempt to put it together for us here so that we may come upon this Halloween or All Souls Day with a renewed perspective and respect for this once solemn Pagan and Christian holiday that originally went back to the Druids and the ancient Romans. Note that the Druidic tradition was an oral tradition and the Druids did not write down their history and so it was left to the Romans to do so; what the Romans gave us is not entirely to be trusted for this reason for surely they had some agenda of their own and wanted to promote their own gods and belief systems. >>>More, on blogcritics.org
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/10/29/112127.php
