Looks like Halloween is tomorrow. Tomorrow night children will go door to door and ask for candy; adults will throw wild parties; conservative Christians will beguile us with the evils of Halloween; Jack Chick will release yet another tract explaining that Halloween is Satan's birthday; the Satanists will either have wild orgies, or sacrifice something; and someone else will pout because their dog Timmy was ran over on Halloween. And they have never gotten over it.
Sadly, not many people here know about the true story of Halloween. Thankfully, I'm here to tell you.
A few hundred years ago in a country that is not America, there lived two communities of people that we shall call the Hellians, and the Castinites. They each worshiped a different God, and could never agree over who's deity was the best. Finally the evil highest priest Alessandro Archibald devised a plan. Every year, on October 31st the highest priestess of each of the communities would offer a sacrifice to their god, and bring their respected deity down. The deities would possess the bodies of the high priestesses, and the two would then fight until only one survived.
During the battle, the little kids would take off and steal goodies from people's houses, and should someone be at a house they would offer the chance to be given a treat, or to give a trick.
The Gods of this land are now known as Heathenious Christo and Satanael Alessandra.
Tomorrow night they will possess an innocent victim, and fight to the 'death'.