The story of HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ohhhh boy. The time of year where I get to hand out candy to all the little ghoulies. Did you know that halloween was actually started by a group of people that were addicted to sugar? They happened to live in a time when the sugar was regulated and rationed off to the select few who could afford it, or had enough pull in the village to earn the favor of the chieftan. He would give each huthold a tablespoon of the sweet stuff to last one calendar month. And back then a calendar month ran for 57 days. Meanwhile the power-players in the village would get a 60lb bag to use each week. And that was PER PERSON!!!!

So the down-trodden folks in the village came up with a plan. They started an alliance with the "Dentistomites".  These were evil little creatures that survived on glucose. Without it they became very tired, often not leaving their orifices for weeks. They would lay there like slugs until water and food deprivation overcame them. So the poor people in the village sought out the Dentistomites and told them of the over-abundance of sugar in the village. They would tell the Dentistomites which huts had the most sugar in exchange for 1/4 of the take. The Dentistomites would go into the village after the sun had set and look for the huts without pumpkins on the porch. These were the huts that had the life force the Dentistomites needed. If the occupants refused the Dentistomites would use their specialized tools to pull out one tooth of the sugar hoarders until they finally gave in. Then they would go back to their orifice and divvy out one quarter of the sugar to give to the poor. This went on year after year until the Dentistomites finally died off. But the inhabitants of the land would always remember the days when their teeth would get yanked out by those little Dentistomites that came out of their orifices and take all their sugar away. This eventually became the name for the people who would fix their teeth when something was wrong with them, otherwise known as "DENTISTS". And their orifices they lived in became known as the "Dentist's OFFICE".

So there is the TRUE story of Halloween. As for the name.......they just thought it sounded cool.