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Andrew Celandine
University Wire
10-28-1999
(The Justice) (U-WIRE) WALTHAM, Mass. -- Of all the festivals which we celebrate today, few have histories more convoluted than that of Halloween.

Also known as the eve of Allhallows, Hallowmas or All Saint's Day, Halloween marks one of the most important days in the church calendar. Strikingly enough, according to anthropologist Ralph Linton, in his book "Halloween Through Twenty Centuries," the holiday also celebrates "beings and rites with which the church has always been at war."

Halloween is the night when ghosts and ghouls are said to walk the ...

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