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Hello everyone,
First of all, I would like to apologize for being away for a little while. Working full time, going to night school, doing homework, and lots of other stuff (like seeing my Philllies work their way to the World Series again) has stalled me from keeping up to date with the website and posting my blogs. So, again, I wish I could be on here more often, but I will do my best. Anyway, here is a topic I thought is worth bringing up: It's October, and that means only one thing: it's not only the month that captures the height of the Autumn of Terror, but it is the month of horrors anyway due to the annual clebration of Halloween. Now, I live in the US where Halloween, although not a national holiday, is more-or-less a celebrated tradition. My questions are: Is Halloween a big deal in the UK today? I would think it would be due to it's Celtic origins and Druidic rituals. Aside from that, I was also wondering if Halloween was celebrated in London in 1888, during the height of the Ripper scare. It's a topic that really isn't mentioned much in this research and I was just wondering if any of the newspapers at the time happened to reference any Halloween-like events or traditions going on in the city at that time?
First of all, I would like to apologize for being away for a little while. Working full time, going to night school, doing homework, and lots of other stuff (like seeing my Philllies work their way to the World Series again) has stalled me from keeping up to date with the website and posting my blogs. So, again, I wish I could be on here more often, but I will do my best. Anyway, here is a topic I thought is worth bringing up: It's October, and that means only one thing: it's not only the month that captures the height of the Autumn of Terror, but it is the month of horrors anyway due to the annual clebration of Halloween. Now, I live in the US where Halloween, although not a national holiday, is more-or-less a celebrated tradition. My questions are: Is Halloween a big deal in the UK today? I would think it would be due to it's Celtic origins and Druidic rituals. Aside from that, I was also wondering if Halloween was celebrated in London in 1888, during the height of the Ripper scare. It's a topic that really isn't mentioned much in this research and I was just wondering if any of the newspapers at the time happened to reference any Halloween-like events or traditions going on in the city at that time?
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