Pagan Religions in Five Minutes - Suzanne Owen
48. Are Halloween and Easter Pagan Festivals?
Pagan Religions in Five Minutes - Suzanne Owen
Jenny Butler [+]
University College Cork
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Jenny Butler is a lecturer in the Study of Religions Department at University College Cork and a principal investigator at UCC’s Environmental Research Institute. She researches in the areas of contemporary Paganism in Ireland and esotericism and Irish history
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All Hallows Eve, which became Halloween, is the evening before All Saints Day in Roman Catholicism. The following day is for the remembrance of the dead. For Pagans it is a time when the “veil” is thin between the living and the dead and marks the end of summer. Easter, too, is a blend of Christian and “pagan” traditions when “light” and “dark” are in balance at the Equinox.