The roots of Halloween

Cleveland Daily Banner - WRIGHT WAY The roots of Halloween: "What if thousands of famous people died in one fell swoop, leaving their parents forever childless, angry and determined to have everyone memorialize their deaths? How would they do it?

I ask that because I read about a strange connection between Halloween and the global flood mentioned in the Genesis account. It made me wonder where myths and legends originate and if the global flood has some link to a practice people are still doing.

In his book “The Worship of the Dead,” Colonel John Garnier wrote, “The mythologies of all the ancient nations are interwoven with the events of the Deluge ... the force of this argument is illustrated by the fact of the observance of a great festival of the dead in commemoration of the event, not only by nations more or less in communication with each other, but by others so widely separated, both by the ocean and by centuries of time."