Understanding the Dark Origins of Halloween

What is Halloween?

Is it a fun holiday with scares and laughter?

Is it really satanic?

Halloween focuses on evil, darkness, witches, spirits, and death. Halloween focuses on dressing up as evil creatures. A custom in the West is where children in scary costumes, go to the houses of strangers, commit extortion or even vandalism in some cases.

Halloween is a celebration of dead people, dead bodies, skulls, and skeletons. There are embodiments of the ‘gods of spirits’ on the earth right now. Demons are all about at this time in great numbers.

Halloween is about the gods coming in or the spirits coming in, especially when people turn away from God, and allow paganism to take its place in their lives. In many places in Europe and the US, Halloween is the most pagan major holiday today, and now come to our nation too.

How do we know? Well, let’s talk about it. What is Halloween? What is it really about? Halloween. Strange name for the holiday because ‘holo’ means holy. ‘Holo’ as in hallowed be thy name.

And so, it’s holy. It’s called ‘holy in’! In this is a form of saying ‘evening in’. So, it’s the holy evening or evening of the holy!

It is linked to ‘all saints day’. And there’s part of it that supposedly is celebrating the saints as in the dead saints. This comes from a pagan holiday, a Roman holiday which celebrating the dead.

The ancient Roman holidays that celebrated the dead were Parentalia (February 13–21), a private family festival for ancestors, and Feralia (February 21), a public ceremony with offerings to the dead. The Lemuria (May 9, 11, and 13) was another Roman festival, but it focused specifically on appeasing malevolent spirits, or lemures, rather than honouring deceased family members or the dead in general.

Halloween is also most rooted in the Gaelic lands as in Scotland as in the as in the pagan Celtic cultures.

Halloween marked the beginning of the darker half of the year. At the time it was seen as a time when the division of this world and the spirit world kind of ‘opens up’. So, the spirits come into the world and are physically active.

Spirits of the ancient pagan gods is which are really bad. These demonic spirits satisfy the spirits of the people who are afraid of the spirits on Halloween. These demons are involved with blood lust, sexual perversion and human sacrifices.

Also, they would give offerings of food and drink as in treats or ‘trick or treat’.

The practice of Halloween also involved for ages the practice of divination and divining as in the occult fires were lit to give protective powers.

Part of Halloween is the ancient the origin, the practice of it was called ‘guising’ coming in disguise. They would go house to house in costumes disguised as the spirits or souls of the dead they would recite pagan like verses and for coming as the dead spirits they would be given food so that misfortune trick wouldn’t come to the house, so they’d give an offering or a treat.

So, so that’s where it comes from. ‘Trick or treat’. Having your children dress up and go do this.

Halloween is the root of paganism. The Bible says that behind the pagan gods are what’s called in Hebrew the ‘Shadim’.

Shadim in Greek becomes the word ‘dimonia’ which is means demonic spirits.

Actually, when the Irish and Scottish immigrants came to America, they brought with them Halloween.

Halloween is also linked to satanic worship. It is a high day for witches and Satanists alike.

It has been called one of the four greats of the Sabbath of the witches. A witch’s Sabbath. It’s been called the second most important day on the satanic calendar.

On Halloween, spells are cast, ceremonies are observed, dark and black magic is practiced, rituals are performed involving blood and terrible sexuality and dark demons. Immorality is the peak at this time.

Two great sins join here, the first is the sin of the pagan world or the apostate. The second is the sin of the Pharisee. Why pharisee? Because it is a make-believe kind of tradition that has no spiritual value in heaven at all.

Halloween is deeply associated with darkness by its origins, its imagery, its themes, and its practices.

As believers we are not to take part in it. We are told have nothing to do with the things of darkness and avoid even the appearance of evil.

Then, Halloween, what does it stand for? It stands for darkness and witchcraft and death.

So now what about India, the land we live in.

Yes, some people in India celebrate Halloween, particularly in metropolitan areas, influenced by Western culture. While not a traditional Indian holiday, it is embraced by many for its fun aspects like costume parties, themed events at clubs and restaurants, and a growing appreciation for Western media.

The Indian version of Halloween is ‘Bhoot Chaturdashi’, celebrated the night before Diwali, especially in West Bengal. It involves lighting 14 earthen lamps to guide ancestral spirits and ward off evil ones, while a meal of 14 greens is also traditionally eaten.

Diwali is joyful and celebratory, whereas Halloween is often spooky and eerie. Despite differences, Diwali and Halloween share common elements. Both use lights – diyas and jack-o’-lanterns, and spirits are involved.

So, whatever it is…dark spirits are involved.

Lastly, October 31st, on the other hand, is not sinful. October 31st is a day that God made as he did all days. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.

Do don’t judge the others. Here you find, the avatars of the spirits that are in the world, your world right now and even on the political stage.

And now the word for you…careful of these transforming and morphing spirits. They come under the ‘guise’ of good spirits. There are no good spirits except the Holy Spirit that works according to the Word of God.

Put on the full armour of God so you’re going to be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. Our struggle isn’t against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, the powers, the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the high places. Take up the full armour of God, my friend, that you’ll be able to resist on the evil day. And having done all things, stand firm.

Let me say with all my heart… “Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.”

Let God’s Shalom rest upon you!

Willie Soans