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

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

Nicholas Rogers''s new study of the old festival shows the connection in between such contemporary versions of the holiday and its antecedents. The Christian celebrations which are said to be precursors to our modern observance--All Hallows'' Eve, All Saints Day, Harvest Festival--are of comparatively little interest to Rogers, a historian at Canada''s York University. Rogers maintains that there is a unifying motif in related seasonal festivals as far back as the Celtic Samhain, an autumnal celebration originating in Ireland, which reflected rites for the protection halloween of the harvest, apprehension at the onset of winter and a more general awareness of the season''s costumes shift toward increased darkness. That recurring motif is the celebration of transgressiveness. (While this is not a new term, a primary contemporary meaning is that of "exceeding a limit or boundary, especially of social acceptability." The related notion of liminality or liminal states--i.e., "consciousness or conduct related by proximity to the threshold of a physiological or psychological response"--is also significant here.)

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