Halloween is a last hurrah of the powers of evil before their routine drubbing on All Hallows' Day.

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Richard Goodall, the curator of All Hallows Church in Great Mitton and St.

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The Christian holiday of All Hallows' Eve, celebrated on the same date, was originally celebrated on May 13, and was moved to its present date by Gregory III in the eighth century.

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The site also links to a wide selection of Halloween-related web pages, covering All Hallows' Eve subject matter from ghost stories to costumes to "mystic games" like a virtual Ouija board and a tarot card reading.

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Both All Hallows' Eve -- known today as Halloween -- and All Saints' Day, which follows on November 1, were designated as days to pray for dead souls that had not passed out of purgatory, in the belief that the prayers of the living will help.

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After all, it is only the mass commercialisation of Halloween that is both new and American: it is more than a millennium since the Catholic church, attempting to convert the pagan Celts in Britain and Ireland, created All Saints or All Hallows Day to coincide with the Celtic festival honouring the dead.

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The Avengers (which is still earning money in theaters) is already the third highest-grossing film of all time pushing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 into 4th place.

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All eyes are now on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 which opens July 15th.

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Now, following fresh rule changes, the best-picture field announced Tuesday didn't include any huge hits: The year's top earner, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, " is missing, as are all the year's other top-10-grossing films.

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