Well, I hope you survived Halloween and the leftover candy blood-sugar spikes. Now bring on the Christmas decorations.

Pumpkins, sweets and lanterns are familiar features of a well-loved tradition known around the world: Halloween.

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Folklorists created a through line from the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain to Halloween. But the Halloween we know today has more to do with the English, a 9th century pope and American consumerism.