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Nicholas Rogers''s new study of the old festival shows the connection between such contemporary versions kids of the holiday and its antecedents. The Christian celebrations which are said to be precursors to our modern observance--All halloween 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 of the harvest, apprehension at the onset of winter and a more general awareness of the season''s shift toward increased darkness. That recurring costumes 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.)

Nicholas Rogers''s new study of the old festival shows the connection between such contemporary versions kids of the holiday and its antecedents. The Christian celebrations which are said to be precursors to our modern observance--All halloween 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 of the harvest, apprehension at the onset of winter and a more general awareness of the season''s shift toward increased darkness. That recurring costumes 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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