Trick or treat?(FRONTLINE)

From: History Today | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

IN RECENT YEARS Hallowe'en has become a major popular festival, with children everywhere dressed as ghosts, devils and witches. Their black hats and broomsticks, or horns and pitchforks, owe most to Hollywood and Hammer Horror, though with any horrific elements modulated by irony and cuteness--but they derive from the Gothic imagination, and further back to the late medieval nightmares of the Last Judgement and the real horrors of the witch-hunting mania of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how many people, even then, believed in the reality of the Devil or thought that ...

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