Is Halloween Satanic? Satan says take it up with the Vatican.
Forget pagan death cults—modern Halloween has a lot more Catholic paperwork, medieval souling, and made-up Druid fan-fiction about Samhain. We’re taking a festive blowtorch to Halloween’s Satanic Panic to demonstrate that Satan did not, in fact, invent fun-size Snickers bars, Halloween is not the Devil’s holiday, and it’s not even Satan’s birthday (much to his dismay).
We're digging into All Saints' Day, All Souls' Day, medieval soul cakes, and Samhain—which turns out to have about as much historical evidence for its existence as Atlantis. Expect high-density religious satire, historical myth-busting, gossiping monks, and, shocking absolutely no one, an 18th-century mediocre white man. Fully scripted. Heavily produced. Featuring original punk rock music from The Genuine Hoots of Joy, and the Pope planning his holiday in Ibiza.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Where did Halloween originate? Discover how Pope Gregory III and IV standardized Allhallowtide in November to streamline Vatican paperwork rather than battle imaginary pagan death cults.
• Is Halloween a pagan or Christian holiday? We dig into the 300-year gap between the Christian conquest of Britain and early Samhain mentions.
• Where did trick-or-treating come from? Medieval soul cakes, mumming, costumes and begging from strangers turns out to be much older—and much weirder—than you'd expect.

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Satan Is My Superhero is a satirical, fully researched and evidence-based comedy podcast for adults. We investigate history, religion, conspiracy theories and other assorted human nonsense for the purposes of comedy, criticism and analysis. Full source lists for individual episodes are available upon request. Satan Is My Superhero does NOT want to recruit you into a cult, overthrow the government or teach you how to summon the Devil. We DO NOT actually believe in Satan. Judas, Lexi and the Satan Is My Superhero team do not endorse hatred, discrimination, violence, self-harm or illegal activity.

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