Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 23, 2012
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Transcript:
Alice: Tell me the story of Halloween. Dad: It doesn't really have a story. Alice: It has to have a story. Dad: It's just for fun. Petey: It's to placate the zombies. Alice: oh. Okay. Dad: Petey! Stop with the zombies and go to bed.
Of course it has a story. Christians have a holiday to honor all the saints of yore, called “All Saints’ Day”, or alternatively “All Hallows’ Day”. The evening before, in a holdover from the Jewish practice of beginning a day at sunset the night before, was called “All Hallows’ Eve” (just as Christmas Eve is the evening before Christmas). Through common usage, it went through “All Hallows’ E’en” to “Hallowe’en”