History of Halloween: The origins of the holiday
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Halloween is a time when many folks like to dress up, play pranks and eat candy, but that’s not how the holiday got its start.
By the 1st century A.D., the Roman Empire conquered the Celts and brought two of their festivals to the forefront, including Feralia, which commemorated the dead, and Pomona, which honored the goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards.
Roughly six centuries later, those festivals were replaced by Christian traditions in light of the religious shift in the western world.
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