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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 456: Halloween and its pagan origins. Plus, what is paganism anyway?
Description: The boys drink and review a pumpkin beer from Sam Adams, then discuss the origins of Halloween and paganism in general.
Halloween came from something called Samhain, which was a pagan feast for the end of the year. In the years before capitalism and industrial food production, this was a time of year where you desperately hope and your family won't starve over the winter.
At Samhain, ghosts and spirits walk around on earth. The veil between this world and the world of the dead gets thin. To scare away the spirits our ancestors would...