PAGAN THANKSGIVING

In keeping with my HORROR THROUGH THE HALLOWDAYS theme, I will explore the dark side of Thanksgiving. We all know Halloween replaced the pagan festival ALL HALLOWS EVE, which was celebrated in Europe. But Thanksgiving is an American holiday, founded in America. It can't have any pagan roots. 

Or can it.

As the story goes, the small band of pilgrims of Plymouth Colony braved the perilous North Atlantic in a quest for religious freedom. They landed in America during a particularly harsh winter. Only 55 of the 102 colonists survived until Spring. The pilgrims had a celebration to thank God for their survival. That celebration eventually became the annual Thanksgiving holiday.

However, for hundreds of years in England, there was an autumn feast called HARVEST HOME derived from the Druid harvest feast. The Druids, by the way, were the most openly Satanic in their form of worship.

Harvest Home and Thanksgiving are strikingly similar. Hmm...

                                                    A zombie version of Thanksgiving

                                                 Images courtesy of "The Black Album"

Yours Truly,

Carlton Kenneth Holder