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Written by To The Point News
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007 |
I love Halloween.
It's so much fun to hear the doorbell ring, open the door to see a bunch
of excited kids dressed in silly costumes, give them candy and hear them squeal
in delight. What a wonderful holiday.
But it's much more than candy and kids having fun. It's a celebration and triumph over stupid
primitive fears that have haunted mankind since the Stone Age.
Anyone who has spent time with primitive tribes in, say,
Africa, the Amazon, or New Guinea, or with traditional peasant societies in,
say, India, Mexico, or Eastern Europe knows how their world is filled with
nightmares they think are real. Ghosts,
witches, ghouls, demons, vampires, evil spirits are very, very real to these
people. Their lives are lived in terror
of such imaginary creatures.
The saga of civilization, the "Ascent of Man," is in large
part the story of our climbing out of the pit of superstition. We climb all the way out of it with
Halloween.
For Halloween makes fun at all these primitive
nightmares. More to the point, it
teaches kids to make fun of them. Kids
poking fun at creatures of superstition would terrify primitives and
peasants. The freedom to ridicule is a
great way to get rid of silly fears.
This Halloween, however, may be different. A real actual witch has been spotted flying
in the sky lately, and fear of it is certainly not silly for it is truly
scary. Here's what it looks like:
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