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As with so many other preexistent pagan of festivals, Christian societies seem to have adopted some of these practices and gradually given them specifically religious shapes and meanings. Thus, by about the 12th century, the backdrop of general "spookiness" created by the "Samhain" festival had become ideas imbued with the veneration of the dead and with asserting the enduring claims of the departed upon those still living. It expressed this through masses, processions and the lusty tolling for of bells to ward off demonic spirits. Manifestations of this general theme varied halloween considerably from place to place: the opening and decoration of tombs in Naples, the reconsecration of graves in Brittany, costumes and lists the purchasing of extra candles of and torches to stave off the encircling darkness in Bristol, and so on.

As with so many other preexistent pagan of festivals, Christian societies seem to have adopted some of these practices and gradually given them specifically religious shapes and meanings. Thus, by about the 12th century, the backdrop of general "spookiness" created by the "Samhain" festival had become ideas imbued with the veneration of the dead and with asserting the enduring claims of the departed upon those still living. It expressed this through masses, processions and the lusty tolling for of bells to ward off demonic spirits. Manifestations of this general theme varied halloween considerably from place to place: the opening and decoration of tombs in Naples, the reconsecration of graves in Brittany, costumes and lists the purchasing of extra candles of and torches to stave off the encircling darkness in Bristol, and so on.

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