Samofvt
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I wasn't there, but seriously, Halloween has nothing to do with Christianity. It is a separate, secular thing started in New England sometime after the Salem witch hunts, a truly bizarre instance of Mass Psychosis. We celebrate the occult, partially in recognition that it is just fantasy, and partially to give our sorrow at letting that fear get out of hand. Whatever you are talking about is purely cultural appropriation. Maybe there was some sort of thing in Celtic history similar, but that is not it, I assure you.This is naive nonsense. The holiday is shifted by the church, it was originally on the solstice. The Slavs have roughly preserved this, there is Halloween before Christmas.
The fact that this is a Celtic holiday is now not disputed even by the clergy themselves.
And your other theories (far above) are fine to think about and question. However, the root of Christianity is in the Word, objects in your historical mirror may look distorted, but the Word and the meaning is most important.