Ireland invented Halloween. The Church spent a thousand years trying to kill it. America sold it back. #Halloween #Samhain #Ireland #CelticHistory #HalloweenHistory #ForgottenHistory #Bluesky #Flipboard
econopass.comThe Country That Accidentally Invented Halloween Spent Centuries Trying to Kill ItIreland invented Halloween. The Catholic Church spent a thousand years trying to suppress it and failed. The famine diaspora carried it to America, and American consumer culture sold it back to Ireland as a ten-billion-dollar product. Ireland is still buying.
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