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GHOSTS, COSTUMES, TRICK-OR-TREAT AND A HARVEST MOON -- OUR CELEBRATION OF HALLOWEEN IS A MIX OF MODERN CUSTOMS AND ANCIENT TRADITIONS.

HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN? WHO WERE THE FIRST CELEBRANTS? AND HOW DID THE CELEBRATION EVOLVE FROM ANCIENT RITES TO COSTUMES AND CANDY?

TO SORT IT ALL OUT, WE TURNED TO EXPERTS, FROM THE GROWING 500,000 AMERICAN FOLLOWERS OF PAGANISM, ON THE ANCIENT CELTS WHERE MODERN HALLOWEEN HAS ITS ROOTS. PAGAN PRIESTESS JOY WILLIAMS RESEARCHED AND WROTE THIS NINE-QUESTION QUIZ BASED ON SOME OF THE WORK OF NEO-PAGAN AUTHOR ISAAC BONEWITS.

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