0lightwaves0: unauthorized-magic: This thread is so good. Samhain is my favorite holiday but t
0lightwaves0: unauthorized-magic: This thread is so good. Samhain is my favorite holiday but this is 100% true. Spirits are out and about all the time! Conventional wisdom states that generally, malicious spirits are attracted to negative emotions like intense fear, anxiety, and dread. If anything, all the collective obsession with fear and evil and horror on Samhain just attracts an abundance of NEGATIVE spirits, creating a kind of illusion that Samhain = bad and spooky spirits. The only reason we treat it like such a scary and controversial holiday is that we’ve made death so taboo that any allusion to it is morbid and wrong. “The Veil” is a product of this kind of fear of the unknown. I’m a huge fan of both historical accuracy and etymology -- source link