George Will recently wrote a column concerning our current problem with terrorism, in which he describes a book written about the National Socialist horror and how it is congruent to the Palestinian suicide bombings of Israelis. One part of this book describes a German soldier with a one year old child impaled on his bayonet, still crying weakly. This is how I see abortion - - a revived practice of ritual murder.
Likewise, I see Halloween as a revived practice that has such esoteric parts and idolatry attached. All the elements of drama are a ritualization of the pagan idolatries. You can go to this thread: Ethereal Explorations, where I desribe it in detail, with scholarly references you can investigate...