Death Makes a Holiday
Subtitle: A Cultural History of Halloween
Edition: Illustrate edition
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Published: April 2005
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780756789008
Subjects: Social Science; Sociology; Holidays (non religious)
First sentence: ALL IT SAMHAIN, Summer's End, All Hallows' Eve, November Eve, or Witches' Night - Halloween has its essential roots in the terrors of the primitive mind, which made no distinction between the waning of the sun and the potential extinction of the self.