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Treat or trick?
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ISBN: 1282043226 9786612043222 1443802654 9781443802659 9781282043220 1443801534 9781443801539 Year: 2009 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub.

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In 1999 the French bishops condemned the celebration of Halloween in France. In 2003 the Moscow Department of Education recommended the banning of Halloween celebrations in all educational institutions under its control. In 2008 a group of Catalan intelle

Halloween : from Pagan ritual to party night
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ISBN: 0195146913 9780195146912 9780195349108 0195349105 1280532084 9781280532085 9786610532087 6610532087 0195302982 9780195302981 0190287209 9780190287207 0197713637 0195168968 9780195168969 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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'Halloween' explores the holiday's origins and early development in the British Isles, its transition to North America as an ethnic festival and its subsequent place in popular, mass culture as a consumer rite and ritual of transgression.

Halloween and other festivals of death and life
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ISBN: 0870498126 0870498134 Year: 1997 Publisher: Knoxville University of Tennessee press

The hallowed eve : dimensions of culture in a calendar festival in Northern Ireland
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ISBN: 0813120810 9780813149943 0813149940 9780813120812 Year: 1998 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky,

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In Northern Ireland, Halloween is such a major celebration that it is often called the Irish Christmas. A day of family reunions, meals, and fun, Halloween brings people of all ages together with rhyming, storytelling, family fireworks, and community bonfires. Perhaps most important, it has become a day that transcends the social conflict found in this often troubled nation. Through the extensive use of interviews, The Hallowed Eve offers a fascinating look at the various customs, both past and present, that mark the celebration of the holiday. Looking through the lenses of gender, ethnicity,

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