many other cultures worldwide celebrate their day of the dead events at this time . hence the inter-mixing in with halloween .
early christians tried to join in on the celebrations , dressing up as dead saints .. hence the blood in costumes , all saints / souls day ,, and devils night and devil costumes .. when this did not work . a bishop actually took the copied pagan holiday and changed it to the same night as the pagans in an attempt to over shadow it and discredit it . even though they had no idea what it was about , and concentrated more on unrelated day of the dead customs .
the only devil , blood , and demons in halloween is the ones christians brought into it ! and put into it .!!!
it's new years !
not the "blood fest" the church made it ,,, then backed off and blamed others for .
but like every other "christian " holiday that was stolen from the pagans .
most are left to believe the lies . and the church is fine with that .
yet im sure it would offend their true ( or false) , god . and they only have themselves to blame .