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Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. It was another holiday Christians started celebrating as their own. Still, Halloween was always more exciting to me as a child than Xmas. I now suspect the reason was that Halloween was a holiday in which the children received equal treatment. The wealthy kid down the street couldn't make me feel bad by rubbing it in that he got something much much nicer than I received. Besides, Halloween is a holiday in which you could be something besides "just a kid."