Trick or Treat?
Relationships can feel like delicious treats or deplorable tricks, and the song that we hear each Halloween begs us to make a choice: “Trick or Treat?” Relationships and Halloween both full of choice. And, it has always been this way. The origins of Halloween being about the dead and our relationship to them long before there was a song to wield in which to gross candy. Beginning in the seventh century with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts the day before the Celtic New Year. This was a very superstitious time, “when the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely depe