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Folk traditions are a long way from today's blockbuster horror films, as seen by Burns' poem and Anne Beale's "Welsh Halloween":
""Hallowe'en" by Robert Burns. Recorded by: Maureen S. O'Brien. This Robert Burns poem chronicles Halloween divination customs still alive in his time in rural parts of Scotland. He also chronicles the associated party!"
""A Welsh Halloween" by Anne Beale. The chapter All Hallows Eve from Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry is a wonderful short story about a Welsh Halloween party, and some spooky Welsh stories about the night."
In the Irish tale of Jamie Freel we notice that our hero, after the rash error of judgment due to his youth, rescues the young lady from the wee folk, and good triumphs in the end.
""Jamie Freel and the Young Lady" by Letitia MacLintock. Read by Roy Trumbull. On Halloween Jamie Freel accompanies the wee folk as they fly to Dublin and steal a young lady and leave behind a stick which assumes the shape of her corpse. Jamie rescues her and eventually is able to bring her back to her family who are convinced she is dead."
Fast forward to the present and this foaming at the mouth sermon. The man is clearly insane. I wouldn't let anyone under the age of 18 listen to this hate speech.(click on read more if you want to hear it and don't say I didn't warn you)Happy Halloween!
""Samhain:
Green Man of Death" Recorded the morning before Halloween, Samhain: Green Man of Death is more a warning to Christians to refrain from following this wicked way of Cain. Pastor Visser examines the origins of the Fall festival known as All Hollows Eve and looks into the Green Man bard in the process. This is an anti-witch study about death itself as Samhain is considered Satan's evening. Don't miss it!"

tags: scotland halloween traditions folklore ireland welsh christian hate speech