Well, Halloween is just a couple of weeks away. When I was a kid, it was my second favorite day after Christmas. Back then, we were actually allowed to go out Trick-Or-Treating without an adult going with us. No one gave a second thought about it. At least not where I lived. In my neighborhood, parents figured if kids are old enough to go to school, they’re old enough to go Trick-Or-Treating by themselves. Besides, we were just going to our neighbor’s houses and everyone knew everyone so where’s the danger? Nowadays, let kids under 12 go out by themselves and the parents can be arrested for child endangerment. It’s really a shame kids are not allowed to be kids anymore. One of these days someone is going to invent a Trick-Or-Treating app and kids can do it on their phones and never have to leave the house. Candy would be delivered the next day from Amazon or Temu.
Anyway, Halloween is another part of White history and heritage. The word is a contraction of All Hallow’s Eve, as the next day is All Saints Day. That was really good for me. I went to Catholic School and All Saint’s Day was a school holiday. All those suckers in public school would have to go to class unless it was Saturday or Sunday. We got the day off!
Carving pumpkins, trick-or-treating, and wearing scary costumes are some of the time-honored traditions of Halloween. Yet, the Halloween holiday has its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (a Gaelic word pronounced “SAH-win”), a pagan religious celebration to welcome the harvest at the end of summer, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off evil spirits.
The tradition of carving Jack-o’-Lanterns originated in Ireland using turnips instead of pumpkins. It is allegedly based on a legend about a man named Stingy Jack who repeatedly trapped the Devil and only let him go on the condition that Jack would never go to Hell. But when Jack died, he learned that Heaven did not want his soul either, so he was forced to wander the Earth as a ghost for eternity. The Devil gave Jack a burning lump of coal in a carved-out turnip to light his way. Locals eventually began carving scary faces into their own turnips to frighten away evil spirits.
In Celtic times, Halloween was called the Festival of Samhain. Samhain was the lord of the underworld. At this time of year, Samhain would open the gates of the underworld and allow the spirits – both good and evil – to walk the Earth. It was a time of masks and bonfires when anything was possible and nothing was quite as it seemed. It was a time when the walls between the worlds of the living and the dead were thinnest.
The tradition of trick-or-treating most probably began in Scotland with the custom of “guising”. Children and the poor would wear costumes (possibly to spare themselves some embarrassment) and knock on doors asking for food. Later it evolved into treats, rather than regular food, and then practical joking.
The association of black cats began in the Middle Ages. Cats were thought of as the Devil’s familiars, most especially black ones. During the Bubonic times, cats were thought to spread the plague and were often killed by the thousands. Ironically, cats were the best way of controlling the rodent population and the fleas they carried which was the real source of the plague. Another example of how superstitions can actually be harmful.
The traditional Halloween colors of black and orange also traces back to the Celtic festival of Samhain. For the Celts, black represented the “death” of summer while the orange symbolized the autumn harvest season.
The game of bobbing for apples has been a staple at Halloween parties for many years, but its origins are more rooted in love and romance. The game traces back to a courting ritual that was part of a Roman festival honoring Pomona, the goddess of agriculture and abundance. While multiple versions existed, the gist was that young men and women would be able to predict their future relationships based on the game. When the Romans conquered the British Isles in 43 AD, the Pomona festival blended with the similarly timed Samhain, a precursor to Halloween.
For much of the early history of Halloween, towering bonfires were used to light the way for souls seeking the afterlife. These days, lighting candles have generally replaced the large traditional blazes.
For centuries, people have been coating fruit in syrup as a means of preservation. But during the Roman festival of Pomona, the goddess was often represented by and associated with apples; her name derives from the Latin word for apple “pomum” and the fruit is at the heart of harvest celebrations. It is believed that candy apples were invented accidentally in 1908 by William W. Kolb, a candymaker in Newark, New Jersey. As the story goes, Kolb was experimenting with red cinnamon candy to sell at Christmastime and he dipped apples on sticks into the red glaze and put them in his shop window to showcase his new candy. But instead of selling the candies, he ended up selling the apples to customers who thought they looked good enough to eat. They became fashionable treats for Halloween starting in the early 1900s and they remained popular up until the 1970s.
A candymaker at the Wunderle Candy Company in Philadelphia is sometimes credited with inventing the tri-colored candy in the 1880s. But candy corn did not become a widespread sensation until the Goelitz Company brought the candy to the masses in 1898. Candy corn was originally called “Chicken Feed” and it sold in boxes with the slogan “Something worth crowing for.” Initially, it was just an autumnal candy because of corn’s association with harvest time. Candy corn later became Halloween-specific when trick-or-treating grew in popularity in the U.S. during the 1950s. I recently saw a video on YouTube that featured many Europeans and things about American foods they found disgusting. Candy Corn was on the list. Most Europeans find the stuff gross. Candy Corn is 100 percent American.
We all have our Halloween traditions. That’s one of the great things about our country. We have our own traditions. Halloween may have begun in Europe, but America made it popular in modern times.
Dark Cloud
by Steve Davenport
I can’t think of a worse candidate for the presidency then Kamala Harris. We have all heard the stories of how her prosecutor office was a revolving door due to how shitty she was to her employees. Now the liberals want her as president. OMG! How much more can this country take? As wealthy and powerful as this country is, it can’t possibly survive if liberals keep electing horrible candidates. Harris flip flops massively. What does she really stand for? I’ll tell you. Screw the whites. Within nano seconds of her election, we’ll get NATIONAL reparations for slavery. We’ll be paying someone solely because of their race, money for something that happened hundreds of years ago, and the people responsible are long since dead. This stuff is just the beginning. THE liberal agenda.
Whites! Unless you want to live in a black ruled nation, you’d better become an ANP supporter. Donate money. Donate your time to give out literature. Help ANP stop, or at least slow up, the coming black dominance. If we fail, we whites here will be destroyed just as surely as have the whites of Rhodesia and South Africa.
Well, that’s about it for this report. Stay safe, hail victory, and happy Halloween!
Dan Schneider
Deputy Chairman
American Nazi Party