Halloween and Children

Halloween: Symbolism and Traditions "Children's literature that embraces the holidays carries traditions that allow the child to express its imagination and self-expression" Halloween literature is a vehicle that carries numerous images that may be interpreted to be unsuitable for children. With strong ties to the pagan rituals of the Celtic tribes and today's practices of Wicca it is quite apparent why the previous statement may have merit. As literature, regarding this holiday, progressed so has …

…an older child. But still even adult novels have pictures that are gory in nature but curiously most are comic in a sense that they refer to the holiday thus trivializing the story at hand. Sadly, many traditions are not practiced any more because of the weariness of the parents, safety wise. Children have lost one of those first steps in independence and freedom by being restricted by rules the adults have placed on them.