My little brother loves Halloween, which is the Pagan Samhain, both a harvest festival and the time of year when the barrier between our world and the spirit world.
Then came Christianity.
Halloween is more correctly 'Hallowe'en' which is short for 'Hallow's Evening', a Hallow being a Saint. To show that Christianity had officially eradicated the polytheist Paganism, their saints were shown to protect the people from the 'spirits'.
Thus Samhain was Christianised.
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