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Visit his website and click the tab for \"Halloween Sadism.\" Halloween sadism is best seen as a contemporary legend (sometimes called an urban\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Halloween\"","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=halloween"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11826,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11826","url_meta":{"origin":9928,"position":4},"title":"How the Irish Invented Halloween (But Americans Saved It)","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Friend-of-this-blog Jenny Butler (University College Cork) leads off this RTE video on \"How the Irish really invented Halloween.\" (You can watch a larger version at the link.) 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