The Michael Berry Show, much of the history behind Halloween, it turns out has a deeper meaning.

It wasn't just our fascination with scaring people. It was our fascination with death.

And this interminable end to all of our journeys and how we cope with death. I've always been fascinated by this,

from the Aztecs to the Taibudis, the Catholics, Protestants. Today, by the way, today, the day in 1517,

when Martin Luther, tax, I think, 94 items in what became the Deut of Verms,

where he protested against the Catholic Church in Hindenburg, Germany, and what became,

he became from that a Protestant, a marked man for death, a Protestant against the Church,

leading a change, a modification, a reformation, setting off the reformation of the Catholic Church,

by those who protested the selling of what to call Ramon.

When you did something wrong, when you divorced your wife, there was a grievous error

that you committed, you could get an indulgence, the selling of indulgences, the use of the church,

much like we do politics today, the use of the church, and you could make a payment to the church,

that's how they got rich, for saying, oh, it's okay, you can have a divorce.

So that's where the Protestant began. But a fascination and an attempt to cope with death

is so much a part of the Halloween experience, the All Saints Day, or All Hallows Day,

the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, the Selimnity of All Saints, or Hallomoss.

It was actually a Christian Selimnity, celebrated in honor of the Saints of the Church,

known and unknown. There were feasts going back millennia, commemorating, well, get only go

back to millennia, commemorating the Christian martyrs. And from this, we developed a series of feasts

and festivals and experiences related to death, and more importantly honoring those who had gone

before us, whether they be saints or mere family members. But the liturgical celebrations

around all of this go back a long way. And then, of course, on November 2nd, you'll have all

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