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Why do we use masks at Halloween? No, it’s not just to be able to get away with playing a trick on your partner, family or neighbour!

For the historical basis of the use of masks we have to go back to the Celts in ancient Britain.
According to their beliefs, the souls or spirits of all the people who had died that year gathered together on October 31st, the day that represented the end of summer for the Celts. At this meeting, the souls decided whose body, either person or animal, they’d occupy for the next year. That strikes me as a pretty good reason to disguise your face! Read the rest of this entry »

A spooky treat for everyone, try our Halloween Cookies for that little something different. The Halloween cookies, if you look at the ingredients are not all that different from the cereals that your kids are having for breakfast, so as a treat on Halloween we allow the kids to have a  Halloween cookie on Halloween morning. Read the rest of this entry »

Halloween – in the USA and Canada and now many other countries, Halloween is getting to be as important a holiday as Thanksgiving or even Christmas.

How did this tradition come about? Well, it all started with the Celts, people who lived about 800 AD in Britain and Ireland. Read the rest of this entry »