[net.misc] More calendar trivia

hutch (11/02/82)

Since everyone seems to be talking calendars, here's an interesting
tidbit.  Seems that Halloween, the Eve of All Hallows Day, was placed
on an older holiday, like many other religious holidays.
In this case, All Saints (or All Hallows) day is on November first,
which is the Druidic new year.  I don't know how the mapping was made
to match it to Gregory's calendar.  Halloween was also a Druidic
holy day, called Samhain, reputedly after one of the Druid gods.

I'm not afraid to preface my name,

Steve Hutchison
Tektronix Inc
...decvax!teklabs!tekmdp!dadla!dadla-b!hutch
hutch@tektronix (CSNet)
hutch.tek@Udel-Relay (Arpa)