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Why do we celebrate Halloween in the first place?
Anne Diamond spoke to Reading University's Halloween Historian, Anne-Lawrence Mathers.
Anne-Lawrence Mathers:
"What we have now is a complete mash up of different things."
"Somewhere in there is the ancient Irish Gaelic feast of Samhain, the portable lanterns, the concept of a threshold between the living and the dead being crossed comes in."
"People have theorised, but you can't prove anything."
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