we the spaniards have been conquered by usa as halloween shows

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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

Samhain, (where "hallowe'en" stemmed from) is Gaelic... is that Pagan enough.

and history records that many pagan festivals where adopted by christianity and renamed... it was the only way to keep the peace on gaining control of the populations. Another assimilated, so history tells us, is Ester/ Easter (pagan fertilty festival... it always had me fascinated as to what bunnies and eggs had to do with crucifiction) with christmas coming 9 months later.

+1

I was going to add something like this but I would've had to do some research The 'tradition' that is being complained by some here as 'new' is actually way older than the current saints days.