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Article: The Hallowed Eve.(Review)
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- April 1, 2000
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The Hallowed Eve. By Jack Santino. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 167 pp. Illus. ISBN 0 8131 2081 0
Jack Santino has long been fascinated by Halloween. He published his first article on the subject in 1983 and has since been occupied in studying the forms and functions of the festival in the context of North American society. The Hallowed Eve, his most recent published work, travels further afield to explore, in the words of the book's subtitle, "dimensions of culture in a calendar festival in Northern Ireland." Santino paints his picture of the Northern Irish Halloween through discussion of many personal testimonies obtained from accounts ...