Halloween - an occasion for many children, teenagers and adults to celebrate a creepy-funny horror party.
It is the day on which children move around on the street, imitating evil spirits and demanding sweets at doors with slogans such as "trick or treat!" Anyone who does not give what they ask for must expect frolics or vandalism.
Adults present themselves at horror parties with ‘slashed necks’ and the like, and in the stores you can buy numerous party gags such as: "Zombie-Brain-Snacks and liquid blood".
At horror parties there are "chopped finger sausages" to eat, and the testing of occult practices, such as questioning Oracles, Tarot or the Pendulum not only there is becoming more and more popular.
But actually where does this bloody celebration full of scary and fearful figures come from?
And is a frivolous handling of these occult or frightening practices harmful... and where can it ultimately lead?
These questions are usually not asked – or they are dismissed as being a party pooper.
As far as the origin of the Halloween festival is concerned, it is generally believed that the rituals at October 31st lead back to a Celtic Tradition.
Druids are said to have sacrificed people that day to honor their god of death "Samhain".
In the 19th century the custom was brought from the British Isles to the US-American East Coast and later returned to Europe.
It developed very dynamically and had diverse transformations in the course of time.
A continuous development of Celtic customs to modern Halloween customs can historically not be exactly proven.
But what is provable are clear references to Satanism whose sacrificial rituals have been carried out in secrecy for millennia.
This was also confirmed by Anton Szandor LaVey, the founder and high priest of the Church of Satan in the United States.
LaVey claimed to be the first to define and organize modern Satanism.
In 1969 he wrote the "Satanic Bible" that states – among other things – that October 31st, the eve of All Saints' Day, has to be considered as one of the most important celebration days in Satanism.
The researcher of occultism Jack Roper assesses: "... the time of the year with the highest rate of satanic-occult ritual crimes taking place is at Halloween." One who knows through personal experiences about the reality of magic, witchcraft and Satanism as well as the cult of Halloween and its effects, is John Ramirez.
Ramirez grew up in New York's Bronx district in a Satanist family.
See our broadcast: "Escape from hell - John Ramirez, ex-Satanist" that we are going to re-air after this broadcast.
Today he emphatically warns about Halloween: