Halloween

I MET NEIL GAIMAN AND THAT MAN IS THE PERSONIFICATION OF AWESOMENESS.

Pictures at a later date - now I just want to give everyone a link to this and LAUGH MY HEAD OFF.

Beware, you who buy candy to give to little kids, and you who decorate your homes with pumpkins and the colours red, orange and brown, for you are inviting the Devil and his demons in! They will have sex with you and sacrifice your children! 'Tis Devil worship!

Seriously. If Lucifer and his demons even exist, they have better things to do - LIKE MAINTAIN HELL, and possibly Manchester and the Project Work department at my school - than sit around in bags of candy and kill your children and sit on your shoulders to whisper things.

Besides, Halloween has nothing to do with Satan or black magic or any of that nonsense. It started as a harvest festival, Samhain, among the ancient Celts. Yes, they believed that during the night of Samhain the dead would return for a nice hot meal, but here in Asia the Chinese have the month of the Hungry Ghost Festival and nobody says anything.

...During this period demons are assigned against those who participate in the rituals and festivities. These demons are automatically drawn to the fetishes that open doors for them to come into the lives of human beings. For example, most of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches...

...Halloween is much more than a holiday filled with fun and tricks or treats. It is a time for the gathering of evil that masquerades behind the fictitious characters of Dracula, werewolves, mummies and witches on brooms. The truth is that these demons that have been presented as scary cartoons actually exist. I have prayed for witches who are addicted to drinking blood and howling at the moon.
While the lukewarm and ignorant think of these customs as "just harmless fun," the vortexes of hell are releasing new assignments against souls. Witches take pride in laughing at the ignorance of natural men (those who ignore the spirit realm).
Decorating buildings with Halloween scenes, dressing up for parties, going door-to-door for candy, standing around bonfires and highlighting pumpkin patches are all acts rooted in entertaining familiar spirits. All these activities are demonic and have occult roots....

*dead of laughter*

Crowley from Good Omens would be so proud of you, Ms Kimberley Daniels. If you aren't actually him, that is.