(OPINION) Dressing up in costumes, handing out candy, and carving jack-o-lanterns may seem like an innocent tradition, but Halloween’s roots come from a dark, ancient, pagan festival. Now, ex-witch Jenny Weaver who is being used powerfully by God is warning Christians about the spiritual danger of participating in Halloween.
Originally called “Samhain,” Oct. 31 marked the summer’s end and fall’s beginning. Many believed it was a day where the veil between the living and the dead was so thin people could cross through.
“It’s all steeped in demonic rituals,” Weaver says. People in Northern Europe would dress up in costumes to disguise themselves as one of the spirits rising from the dead to protect their families from what they thought was lurking between the veil.
“As a young girl I got into some real deep, dark things. I was in an abusive family so the spirit of rejection gripped my life and I was looking for acceptance,” Weaver says. She found the acceptance she was looking for in all the wrong places. Weaver met a group of girls who were also gripped with the same identity problems.
“They invited me to watch a movie called ‘The Craft’ which was about four witches, wiccans in high school and they had all this power I had watched the movie and I decided I wanted to do that,” she says. For a while she thought the path she was going down was great, but in reality, the enemy was dragging her deeper down a dark path. She lived with another witch, casting spells, having parties, doing drugs, and calling on spirits to rise and come into their bodies. READ MORE
