Winter Balefire
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659 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2015
last heard Feb 2017
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they would also dress up, instead of, you know, thousands of years ago when they were doing the animal skins and things like that, they would start to dress up as spirits and things so that they could blend in with the spirits as they walked around, because there was the belief that the time before, the time in between All Saints Day and, you know, October 31st, was when the veil between our world and the
other side was the thinnest, and they could roam back and forth.
So it's just kind of a... It just kind of transitioned from, you know, the Celtic belief down into, you know, when they started immigrating into America, it just started to transition a little bit when different religions started getting involved and kind of changing things, and...
You know, it's just gone on since.
I know, right?
Right!
Yeah, it's... They, yeah, they went from... Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Um, it was, it was almost like an exchange kind of thing.
Like I, you know, when, um, Christianity came and, and it was almost like a, you know, like I said, when they were doing with the soul cakes and things like that, I guarantee that they would, um, you know, an exchange of, you know, I will give you food if you pray, you know, for these, you know, for my, for my loved ones.
Um, you know, it, it's now with, um,
With the trick-or-treating now, it's... Sorry, I might... That's okay.
It's like
It is Americanized now, exactly.
And it has definitely changed over the years, for sure.
Yeah, I mean, it's, yeah, when they actually started, you know, exchanging, or, you know, when they started changing, you know, bread and things like that for actual sugar, yeah, that just was part of the gradual process, you know, and...
bread.
Yeah, I know.
Somebody gives you a hunk of bread now.
I
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