| | Hallowe'en: Reason for the Season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | It is surmised by many authors that during this festival the same type of executions may have taken place, perhaps with wild abandon. |
| | Ever since, observant Jews celebrate the Festival of Purim (beginning on the evening preceding the 13th) by dressing their children up in costumes of the heroes and of the enemies in the story of Esther. |
| | Thus, just as today's Communion is essentially the Old Testament Passover festival with new meaning given to its symbols, so too (according to this theory) new meaning was given to the symbols of Purim by the Early Church, which began calling it All Martyr's Day. |
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