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Rogers maintains that it was all but impossible for the English Reformation to suppress such rituals, since so much of what went on in local parishes neither involved nor required clerical guidance. Folk-observances such as the lighting of bonfires on Hallowmass and the house-to-house selling of soul cakes, along with halloween and costumes enthusiasm for spells, omens and fortune-telling, and a more general acknowledgment that this was a season of supernatural intensity all indicate that this festival (by whatever name it was observed) always seems to have corresponded with certain societal needs.

Rogers maintains that it was all but impossible for the English Reformation to suppress such rituals, since so much of what went on in local parishes neither involved nor required clerical guidance. Folk-observances such as the lighting of bonfires on Hallowmass and the house-to-house selling of soul cakes, along with halloween and costumes enthusiasm for spells, omens and fortune-telling, and a more general acknowledgment that this was a season of supernatural intensity all indicate that this festival (by whatever name it was observed) always seems to have corresponded with certain societal needs.

These and other old-country customs morphed gay and melded among immigrant halloween populations in North America, gradually overwhelming the disdain for such celebrations among the Puritans and other early arrivals. Concerted efforts were made by immigrant leaders and societies costumes to hold onto and even to rejuvenate old customs as a means of maintaining ethnic distinctiveness. Folk revelry in the form of pranks, music, costumes and so on proved far more adaptable to the New World than folk-religious traditions did.

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