For those interested in exploring the pagan roots of Halloween, the Caduceus Pagan and Witchcraft Halloween Bash at Conway Hall, Holborn in London could be just the ticket. You should frighten off the youth beating down your door at least.If you can't face going out in public on All Hallow's Eve, you can always get decorating and create your own haunted house. Put on your fangs PU anti-fatigue mat and fake blood, get some Halloween spirit and enjoy a good old fashioned fancy dress knees up.
These include an interactive trail with residence witch, Ninny Noo; a pumpkin carving competition; and a Halloween Parade with prizes for the scariest costumes.In later years the Christian church began marking All Saints' Day at the same time of year.Since the Americans hijacked Halloween it has become an excuse for any kind of themed event for adults as well as kids: from Halloween club nights to midnight screenings of horror films at cinemas and spooky TV specials.While we are munching on pumpkin pie and bobbing apples dressed as zombies we may want to remember the Celts who 2,000 years ago would have been throwing the bones of slaughtered livestock onto bonfires and wearing masks in order to calm evil spirits. Are you ready for this year's Halloween-fest? The supermarkets have been since the last Bank Holiday in August, so what's it all about?Many people exist quite happily without ever acknowledging Halloween.
The pagan and Christian religions continue to celebrate with their own separate events too. Their belief was that souls were released from purgatory on All Hallow's Eve, the night before All Saints' Day, for 48 hours. the rooms where King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon feasted on their wedding day. Railways to search for include Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway, Mid-Norfolk Railway, Darlington Railway Centre and Museum, South Tynedale Railway, Kent & East Sussex Railway, Bodmin & Wenford Railway, Foxfield Steam Railway and North Yorkshire Moors Railway. However, most of us surround ourselves with spooks, ghouls, demons, magic and spells, wizards and witches and the living dead every year because of an ancient pagan festival called Samhain and All Saints' Day from the Christian calendar.Along the country's heritage railways, ghoulish ghost trains will be steaming ahead for a range of family and adult seasonal rides.If you fancy a night of dastardly devilry, there are plenty of events on around the country.sunrisetech-china.
 This special event is in aid of St John Ambulance and is for over-18s only. This festival traditionally celebrated the end of harvest time and the beginning of the Celtic New Year on November 1. Over time, ideas from both festivals merged and became known as Hallowe'en in mainstream culture.Pumpkins, gory costumes, spiders and E-numbered-up kids hammering on your door.Halloween is marked around the world in similar form, from Mexico's Day of the Dead to China's Ghost Festival, and increasingly as a result of the influence of American culture in areas such as Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Europe. This was parallel to the pagan belief that the spirits of the dead could spill into the land of the living on this particular night. more...

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