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A Liberty Chronicles Halloween; Cannibals or Saints?

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Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2017 · News & Politics

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It is Reformation Day, and a particularly special one at that. 500 years ago today--as goes the legend--Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral. In Luther’s day, Halloween was All Saint’s Eve--part of Allhallowsmas or Hallowstide, a three-day, ritual-packed observance of Christianity’s early martyrs and first saints dating to the eighth century.

Further Readings/References:
Godwin’s Lives of the Necromancers [insert PDF link when made available]
Marshall, Peter. William Godwin: Philosopher, Novelist, Revolutionary. PM Press. 2017.
Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century. Boston: Beacon Press. 1954
Trevor-Roper, H. R. The European Witch-Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. 1969.

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