Copyright 1998, Christian Light Publications Laughing children dressed as witches, goblins, skeletons, vampires, and other shadowy creatures spread across your neighborhood. They carry bags for candy, bubble gum, money, or other treats.
Teenagers drape toilet paper across bushes in people's yards.
A coven of witches gathers in a forest clearing not far from suburbia. Halloween is their chief holiday, a night of casting spells and invoking the forces of evil. These are a few of Halloween's varied faces. Origins of Halloween Historians trace the origin of Halloween and many of its customs back to the pre-Christian Celtic people of Britain, Ireland, and France. Celtic religious leaders called druids sought wisdom through signs and omens.