What Halloween Means to a Witch
Samhain. The Witch’s New Year. Halloween. I am a Wiccan and I celebrate Halloween, in some ways, a little differently. The traditional activities of dressing up, trick-or-treating, costume parties, and haunted houses are still celebrated. In fact, I went to a haunted house that was set up in the town library just the other night. I read an article in our local newspaper that said that grown ups are usually surprised as to how scared they actually were when they came out because they assumed it would be geared more towards children. They warned that you needed to know exactly what your child could handle. I went to a haunted house when I was younger at Six Flags that scared me a little more than this one did. However, this one had a carnival room which was, of course, filled with clowns. I mainly stared at the floor, letting my husband guide me through. The one thing that did scare me a lot was a girl coming out of a well with long black hair (like the girl from the Ring