"It is a way not of 'taming death,' as Montaigne said, but of exorcising it by establishing a direct line between before and after, which will display the permanence of life in all its aspects and all its states. This is the appropriate lesson to draw from Samhain and its survivals, whether the Christian All Saints' Day or the folklike manifestations of Halloween."
- The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween: Celebrating the Dark Half of the Year by Jean Markale

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