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The Halloween Encyclopedia
The Halloween Encyclopedia
The concept of Halloween as a holiday and cultural phenomenon worthy of serious study is only a few decades old, and only since the mid–1980s have scholars started to accept that Halloween’s place in modern society (especially in American society) merits attention beyond horror fiction and children’s books. The first book devoted solely to Halloween was published just over a century ago, and now, Halloween has its own encyclopedia.
Major entries include Samhain, the Celtic ancestor of Halloween; witches, a major Christian addition to the mythology of Halloween and one that still generates interest and controversy; skeletons, a universally recognized symbol of death; the Day of the Dead, the Mexican holiday that is often compared to Halloween; the jack-o’-lantern, which has its roots in folktales starring the rascally Jack who always manages somehow to beat the Devil; and trick-or-treating, the most loved and misunderstood American Halloween ritual. Hundreds of small entries cover Halloween history and mythology, fortune-telling lore, harvest legends, and 20th century additions to the holiday’s rituals.
Customer Review: Enjoyable
I'm not much of a Hallowe'en fan as it is celebrated today, but I enjoyed this book because it primarily talked about the more interesting celebrations at the turn of the century. I wish, however, that some or all of the wonderful vintage Halloween postcards had been in color.
Customer Review: Halloween's Goblin Universe Disenchanted
Like Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud's A Dictionary of English Folklore ((2000), Lisa Morton's The Halloween Encyclopedia (2003) represents a factually sound but poetically reductive examination of its subject. Both books sacrifice an inherent sense of wonder in the name of scholarly and/or academic respectability, with fairly sterile results, unlike, for instance, comparable works by British historian Ronald Hutton. The tone of Morton's text would be equally suitable to a handbook on carpentry or automobile repair.
Morton's approach is doubly underscored by the unenthusiastic, almost parsimonious, design of the book: with very few exceptions, the illustrations, all of which are in black and white, are disappointing, uninviting, and undefinitive representations of their subjects. Considering the thousands of illuminating and visionary Halloween graphics available, those included suggest that Morton has little visual imagination whatsoever, and thus a probable weakness for interpreting the holiday's symbology.
Importantly, Morton's visual failing crosses over to the book's text: for example, in several entries, Morton expresses perplexity about the meaning and relevance of scarecrows at Halloween: "The popularity of scarecrows as a Halloween symbol is something of an anomaly, since scarecrows are not practical in late October, when crops have already been harvested." One might as well ask why images of snow and snowmen play such a large part in traditional Christmas iconography.
Morton clearly understands--at least intellectually--that Halloween has undeniable agrarian roots and is partially a celebration of harvest; thus she should perceive that the scarecrow, on one level, represents the "autumn other" who, by proxy, presides like a vigilant demi-god over the stages of the agricultural cycle, which, of course, have traditionally culminated with Halloween. On the most basic level, scarecrows and snowmen are simply personifications of the seasons and holiday each represents. But, as human doppelgangers composed largely of vegetable matter, scarecrows are also 'betwixt and between' liminal figures of the highest order.
Throughout the book, Morton's commentary often suggests that she is and always has been an urban dweller with little or no first-hand experience of country life. A leisurely road trip through the Midwest, New York State, and New England during August, September, and October might provide Morton with the broad insight she seems to lack.
Elsewhere, many of Morton's entries seem sadly imbalanced. The entry for 'Guy Fawkes Night' is over six pages in length and 'Pranking' over four, while 'Devil' receives three meager paragraphs, and 'Ghosts,' only six paragraphs. Likewise, Latin America's 'Days Of The Dead' receives over four full pages of text, but 'Harvest' only two paragraphs. Some entries are padded with questionable material, such as the extraneous paragraph on Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Black Cat' which supplements the entry on 'Cats.'
Morton has an easy appreciation for late twentieth century cultural products like John Carpenter's 'Halloween' (1979), but no apparent insight whatsoever into what the 'Jack-O'-Lantern' might have meant to twentieth century audiences, or might mean to celebrants of the present era. Is the American jack-o'-lantern of today merely a meaningless colored shell mechanically and thoughtlessly carved and placed on porches and in windows? Or does the yearly ritual mean something, however obscure, to many who participate?
Anthropomorphic vegetable figures were a prominent Halloween symbol during the early twentieth century, when most Americans were still living agrarian lives, and yet there is no entry considering them, which may leave readers with the impression that the numinous aspects of many powerful Halloween symbols are simply beyond Morton's range of understanding or expression.
The Halloween Encyclopedia should have been a feast for the mind, imagination, and senses, but is unlikely to inspire enthusiasm in either those new to the study of the subject or those with considerable interest in it. Morton's reference to "the gays in American," as if such a label, which many with preferences for their own sex reject, could identify millions of diverse individuals, is unintentionally hilarious, and readers may wonder what Morton's unqualified aside that Reagan Administration oppressed "gays and gay rights" is doing in a book on Halloween.