Many in our secular society believe Halloween is nothing more than a harmless festival that allows kids to collect candy. But is it? Its origins lie deeply rooted in the occult, and Christians should stay away. Here are ten reasons why:

1. October 31st has long been known as “The Festival of the Dead”.

2. The Celtic tribes and their priests—the Druids—celebrated this day as a marker for the change from life to death.

3. Halloween is still celebrated today by adherents of witchcraft who use the night for their rituals. Witches celebrate Halloween as the “Feast of Samhain”,
the first feast of the witchcraft year.

4. Being a festival of the dead, Halloween is a time when witches attempt to communicate with the dead through various forms of divination. Christians should not be
involved with occultic practice or divination. Note God's command against divination in Deuteronomy 18.

5. Occultists believe Halloween is a time of transition between life and death. Some occult practitioners practiced divination and believed you could learn the secrets
of life and wisdom by lying on a grave and listening to the messages from the long departed.

6. Occultists also taught that spirits and ghosts left the grave during this night and would seek out warmth in their previous homes. Villagers, fearful of the possibility of being
visited by the ghosts of past occupants, would dress up in costumes to scare the spirits on their way. They would also leave food and other treats at their door to appease
the spirits so they would not destroy their homes or crops, but instead move on down the road. That is the real reason why kids dress up in costumes today and go
door-to-door seeking treats.

7. Occultists also would try to scare away the spirits by carving a scary face into a pumpkin. This horrible visage would hopefully move the spirit on to another home
or village and spare that home from destruction. Sometimes the villagers would light a candle and place it within the pumpkin and use it as a lantern
(hence the name, Jack-o-Lantern). This is the origin of carving pumpkins at Halloween.

8. In some witchcraft covens, the closing ritual includes eating an apple or engaging in fertility rites. In the Bible Genesis 3, eating a piece of fruit brought sin
and death into the world. In witchcraft, eating an apple is symbolic of bringing life. The practice of bobbing for apples brings together two pagan traditions:
divination and the fertility ritual.

9. Schools are removing any religious significance from Christmas (often called winter break) and Easter (spring break). Isn't it ironic that most public schools
still celebrate Halloween even though it has occultic origins?

10. Participating in Halloween gives sanction to a holiday that promotes witches, divination, haunted houses, and other occultic practices.

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Deuteronomy 18 [10] There shall not be found among you any one that  maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

1 Samuel 15[23] For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

2 Kings 9 [22] And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

2 Chronicles 33 [6] And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Micah 5 [12] And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

Nahum 3 [4] Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her
witchcrafts. [5] Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
[6] And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

Galatians 5 [19] Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
[20] Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
[21] Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.