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  • "Jesus was a great fan of eggs and would consume a dozen raw each morning as part of his body building regimen.

    Easter became associated with eggs because when he rose again on the third day, his first act was to catch up on all of the eggs he had missed out on during his imprisonment, crucifixion and death. He went from house to house, obtaining up to 200 eggs along the way, and gorging himself on them.

    Needless to say, having consumed so many, he was then violently sick. Having done so, he swore off ever eating hens eggs again.

    We pay homage to this by eating as many eggs as we can, until we're violently sick, but in honour of Jesus' decision to abandon hens eggs, we use proxy, chocolate eggs instead."
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Halloween a Celtic festival, not Christian

THE Rt Rev Dr John Inge stated in last week’s Bishop’s Diary that he would like to ‘reclaim’ Halloween as a Christian festival “...which is what it originally was.” Actually the festival was originally Celtic.

It was called Samhain, and was adopted by Christians around the 9th Century AD and renamed All Hallows Even, since they decided to celebrate All Saints on November 1.

The ghosts and witches are a hangover from ancient times, when it was believed that the souls of the dead were free to walk the earth on that night.

The ancient people wore masks and ‘guises’ to bring good luck and scare away any evil spirits.

None of these practices are evident in the later Christian tradition. I’m all for reclaiming our festivals from hype and marketeers, but let’s not forget their true origins along the way.

RUTH WILCOXON Belvedere Crescent Bewdley

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