The Red Cloud chief., 1882-01-05
lLI.HALlON EyF.

.ongcr believed In. The customs con
nected with them 10 not slwaysd & out
they often liager on through ceniraeS.
and. from having one been serious rv-
ligious rite-. or snineth ng real in the
life OF people. they become NJ last nlcr"
childrcn's plays or empty ussgcs. of,cn
most z~ealously enjoycd b. those who
10 not understand their meaning.
Sill other customs have been parts
81 n hcaihen religion. and when that
religion was supplan,ed bv Christianity.
the people held ON To the old customs.
although they had los, their first az
aiicAnce.
For instance. when a party Of boys
and girls are out in a sail boa, and the
wind dies down. splic one saws
Whistle for the wind 4 boz wins
lies. and they all laugh. for IL seems a
good joke ~ think OF raising The wind
oy . whistle. Bui 70 was n serious
thing to the sailors Of old time. for 10
them the whistle was m i'm 'ation 81.
The sound OF the winds. and their IN.
lcntion in making IL was that the goI,
might hear. AMI make the rrd winds
blow. Hut a better illustration OF all
has Is our AIlhallow Eve festival. It,
history Is that IL n custom vii Oh has
passed from the worship OF heather
gods into the tcstiyltic, NJ the chr stan
,hurch. and has sunk At last into a mere
sport
Ali-hallox Eve IS now. in our coun-
try towns. a time Of careless i~rulic. and
II great bonires. which. ! hrsr. arc
still kindied on IN. bill tops in some
places. W. also ind these fires in I'm.
gland. Scotland and Ireland. and from
their history We learn the meaning %
our celebration. Some Of YOU NAV
know that ths early inh ,bitants IL Great
Britain. Ireland and parts Of France
were known ss Cells. aud that their re-
iigion was directed by strange priests
called Druids Three times in the wear.
On the first VI MAY. for The sowing. Mt
the solstice. June "a. for the ripening
and turn Of the wear; and on the eve of
November l. for the harvesting. those
mysterious priests Of the Celts. tho
Druids. built fires on the hilLtops In
France. Britain and Ireland. in honor
Of the sun At this Lust festival the
Druids Of all the region gathered IN
their white robes around the stone al
tar OF cairn on the hilltop Here
stood an emblem OF the sun. and ON the
csirn WAS the sacred tire which had
been kept burning through the year.
The DruMs formed about the fre. and,
1T . signal. guenched IL while deep
silence rested on the mountain. an,l
valleys Then the new lie cleaned on
the cairn, the people n the valley
raised q joyous shout. and from hilltop
10 hilltop other hres answered tho sa.
cred flame. Tn this night, all hearth.
fires In the region had been put out.
and they werc r-kindlcd with brands
from the sacred lire. which was be-
lieved to guard the household through
the year.
But the Dmids disappeared from
their sacred places, the caims on the
hill-tops became the monuments ~
dead religion. aud Christianity spread
70 the barbarots inhabitants OF trance
and the British Islands. Yet the PEG
pie still clung r. their Old rbstoms. and
felt much OF the old awe FOE them. Still
they built their fires on the frst Of Nav
at the solstice in June and on the
v Of November ist. TIE church
found tina, IT could not NIL 4 cuce sepa-
rate the people from their ~ ways. 40
IL gradually turned these ways "a it,
w use. and the harvest fetivai ~ the
Druids became IN the Csihotc Calendar
the Ere OF All Saints. foH that q Lbe
meaning of the name .,MI-hars~
Eve" In the seventh -esbtsvy. the
Pantheon. the anciep> kon.s6kple ~
all the gods, was ~x.ec-,1kxew To
the worship Of ipe VIZ ssa Of all
holy martyrs. TIE festiyIs~tbe &c.
~secraiion was neld at hrst / Nay 49,
but it VA aftersard sh3gea~
vember LIST and thns All s}2sbsy. ~
It Is now called. MS brouskt into con-
nection with the Druid fesliyal. This
union OF = holy d.y Of The church " IN
psZan customs gave new rpeaniny to
the heather rites n the minds of the
common people. md the sres which
once were built honor n De sIn.
they. came 10 thak were knitted %
tighten Christian seals oai ofpurgaiory.
At All ha,low-tide the churth bells Of
England used TO ring for n Christian
souls. until Henry VIII and Elizabeth
forbade the prsctice
Bot BY il separs:son fromfhe solemn
character Of the Druid feAivaL. All
Eve lost much Of ts ANCIENT
and became the e~a1svalpight
II the year for Wild. zru,eAue ff.~. /.
A ceniury after century pSs-d ky. IL
came 70 be spoken od. n the knoc uhes .
the magic powers. With sh5et tAe t~za
antry. al the world over. fIieSehs waztes [,
and ruins. were snppo~ed ~ swarm |,
70 help or IN ure NEE IL vas +,
the time when those frs dseIIers in I.
every land. the fairies. .cS sssh 20 I
u from their xrots sa lurking
znd in the dkrknc-- b the for I
Isss and the shadows ot dS ruins. I
aod robiiss g.ftovcd In
course Of time. The hAllowiag re csme
10 Be considered protected axais-t
Ehese malicious bowsrx- 10 90 eu.- /
IN the Seventeenth censsty for The
n.sssr Of Q fsmny 70 carry 1 lighted .
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'ecf them fromfesf infuenes throsxh :
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specially. a yosax kxerrHffzakDns. ..
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