Comment on Halloween is a more giving and fun holiday than Christmas

bluemoon@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bingo! … that is why Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol as a series of ghosts that visit Scrooge … it was a tradition of story telling of retelling scary ghost stories during the longest day of the year … the moment in the year known in pagan religion as the moment in the year when the dark forces are at their strongest and highest … the winter solstice, the longest night of the year when the darkness is at its strongest … but also a moment of hope, as the light has started to return and the days grow longer.

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  • bluemoon@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    this is some form of cultural torch-passing right here

    never forgetting where things came from

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