Halloween Dreams and the Celtic Otherworld

Through Halloween, the castrated remnants of the Celtic influence on Western culture play out through communal rituals: of giving gifts to strangers, protecting the house with carved gourds that resemble spirits, and dressing in costumes to disguise ourselves after nightfall as a wandering ghost.

But we are also culturally predisposed to dream darkly, or at least confrontationally, during this holiday.

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