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Halloween or Hallowe'en, also known as All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. All Hallows' Eve is either a Christianized Celtic harvest festival or an independent feast that has become associated with earlier pagan festivals.
Works
[edit]- "Halloween," in the New York Times, October 31, 1866
- "The Hallowe'en Fires," in The Golden Bough (1890) by James Frazer
- Games for Hallow-e'en, 1911 by Mary E. Blain
- The Book of Hallowe'en, 1919 by Ruth Edna Kelley
Fiction
[edit]- "The Three Damsels: A Tale of Halloween," in Forget Me Not for 1827 (1826) by David Lyndsay
- "The Banshee's Halloween," in Darby O'Gill and the Good People (1906) by Herminie Templeton Kavanugh
- Hallowe'en at Merryvale, 1916 by Alice Hale Burnett
Verse
[edit]- Halloween, 1785 poem by Robert Burns
- Halloween Failure, 1910 poem by Carlyle Smith
- Hallowe'en in a Suburb, 1926 poem by H. P. Lovecraft
Reference
[edit]- "Hallowe'en," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "All Saints' Day," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)