Halloween! What’s that got to do with Old Books?

Hi all,

Well for a start the tradition of Halloween itself is as old as the hills.

Here is a brief description of how halloween got started as taken from Ask Yahoo.

Halloween has something for everyone. Children scarf candy. Teens smash pumpkins. And dogs go bonkers whenever the doorbell rings. But how did the wild and crazy celebration get its start? We checked in with the History Channel to find out. The holiday’s origins date back to “the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.” Roughly 2,000 years ago, a people known as the Celts lived in the area now divided among three modern-day countries: the United Kingdom, Northern France, and Ireland. The Celts began their new year on November 1, meaning October 31 was their New Year’s Eve. According the History Channel, “the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred” that night.

Bonfires and animal sacrifices were common, as were costumes “typically consisting of animal heads and skins.” Eventually, the Romans conquered the Celts, and Samhain was combined with other holidays. Later, as Christianity became more powerful, Pope Boniface IV put a new tilt on the event. He designated November 1 “All Saints’ Day” — a day when followers could honor saints and martyrs. This celebration was also called “All-Hallows,” and the night before (October 31) was known as “All-Hallows’ Eve.” Later, it became known as Halloween.

These days, Halloween is mostly known as a day when kids throw dental hygiene out the window and go hog-wild with candy. The origin of trick-or-treating is somewhat disputed, but we invite you to check out this essay by Isaac Bonewits. All the possibilities are covered with a minimum amount of trickery.

I’m almost as old as the hills and as far as I can remember I have known about halloween on the 31st October each year since I was knee high to a Knat. I used to go out “trick or treating” as a child and now my grandchildren do exactly the same. Although I do believe these days the tradition is a little more organised and parents or guardians usually accompany the youngsters for their own safety.

I notice today that the great grand master of cyberspace google has allowed their homepage to be dominated by a halloween tribute. May I say it looks very nice here too.

Anyway I digress from the matter in hand, that is Old Books.

You can find many old books on the subject of halloween in the public domain.

More so you will find a wealth of old books on witchcraft, which in itself an enormously searched for term on the internet. There are 8,140,000 pages for witchcraft on google. Just one more massive subject for you to get your teeth into and make money from. Here is a link for a book on witchcraft that is absolutely flying out of the bookshelves on clickbank at an amazing rate of knots.

Why not find yourself an old book on witchcraft, research as much as you can about the subject  and then let Old Books Make Money for you?

Bye for now and watch out for more skeleton’s coming out of the cupboard.

Happy trick or treating.

Dave.