Halloween not ‘pagan’ day

Taylor Boydstun Variety Editor According to CNN, more than 179 million Americans celebrated Halloween this year, spending over $9 billion on decorations, candy, costumes and more. That’s over one-third of the U.S. population. In a class lecture on the history of Halloween, Luke Ritter, a lecturer of history, told a story from his childhood about trick-or-treating at the home of a man who said he shouldn’t celebrate Halloween since it is a pagan, Satanic holiday. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” Ritter said. “The origins of Halloween are, in…

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