This seems like a perfect time for us all to sing that Dar Williams song about the Christians & the Pagans (in one family) having Thanksgiving dinner together (but this time only pumpkin pies are burning.)

I love Halloween.* Of course, I live next to a cemetary, call my little place Goblin Farm, and am very clear that if I lived in "olden days" I'd have been burned the first time anyone heard me talking to animals... & plants!

(*I live in a tiny rural village, so it doesn't get crass.)