Scarier than clowns: Chick tracts

[galateus]

And now, a holiday classic, showing the true face of that eeevil heathen holiday called Halloween, or as Chick tracts call it...

Satan's birthday!

Comments

[sistermagpie]

Of all the things wrong here it's silly to focus on this, but I love the way that when the Druids go house to house collecting human sacrifices (wtf?) they leave a jack o'lantern in return...and it's a pumpkin.

Pretty sure the pumpkin is an American twist.

[icon_uk]

Indeed, swede or turnip lanterns were what we used to carve when I were a lad in Scotland.

They showed a Poirot set during Halloween last week, and the fact that the upper-middle class lady hosting a party in England during the late 1920's or early 1930's had the kids carving pumpkins screamed out at me as being unlikely. Unless anyone prove me wrong on that one.

[g1andyp]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the original legend around Jack-O-Lanterns about this guy named Jack, cutting up a turnip or something to protect himself from the devil?

Because protecting oneself from the devil is definitely satanic.

In fact, isn't that where the dressing up part came from too?