Editing Halloween (section)

==Etymology==
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The word ''Halloween'' or ''Hallowe'en'' ('[[Saint]]s' evening'<ref name="Luck1998">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Luck|first=Steve|title=All Saints' Day|encyclopedia=The American Desk Encyclopedia|page=22|year=1998|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|language=en|isbn=978-0-19-521465-9|url=https://archive.org/details/americandeskency00oxfo/page/22/mode/2up?q=halloween}}</ref>) is of [[Early Christianity|Christian origin]];<ref name=DSL/><ref>''The A to Z of Anglicanism'' (Colin Buchanan), Scarecrow Press, p. 8</ref> a term equivalent to 'All Hallows Eve' as attested in [[Old English]].<ref name="oed">{{Cite OED|All Hallows' Eve|quote={{Em|ealra halgena mæsseæfen}}}}</ref> The word ''hallowe[']en'' comes from the [[Scots language|Scottish]] form of ''All Hallows' Eve'' (the evening before [[All Saints' Day|All Hallows' Day]]):<ref>{{Cite OED|Halloween}}</ref> {{lang|sco|even}} is the Scots term for 'eve' or 'evening',<ref name=Contraction>{{cite book|title=A History of the Scottish People from the Earliest Times: From the Union of the kingdoms, 1706, to the present time|url=https://archive.org/details/ahistoryscottis00annagoog|publisher=Blackie|first1=Thomas | last1=Thomson | first2=Charles | last2=Annandale|quote=Of the stated rustic festivals peculiar to Scotland the most important was Hallowe'en, a contraction for All-hallow Evening, or the evening of All-Saints Day, the annual return of which was a season for joy and festivity.|year=1896|access-date=31 October 2011}}</ref> and is contracted to {{lang|sco|e'en}} or {{lang|sco|een}};<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |dictionary=Scottish National Dictionary (1700–) |id=snd8629 |volume=III = |title=E'EN, Een |year=1952 |url= https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/snd8629 }}</ref> ''(All) Hallow(s) E(v)en'' became ''Hallowe'en''.