Now I admit I took most of my information on Halloween from Wikipedia. Still, I'm sure plenty of that information was still available back in the 80s if you made any sort of attempt to find it like I don't know...look in an encyclopedia?

Wow, three at once. Talk about shitty luck. Really though, wouldn't the police find Brenda's finger prints on the wrapper of the piece of candy that killed that kid? Or am I thinking too much CSI here?

Okay, now I've heard and read different ideas on this, and this idea probably isn't shared by all, but I feel the need to point it out still. Satan =/= Lucifer. Satan is an angel, yes an angel that acts as a Devil's Advocate, but not actually the devil. He's well known for the whole Job test (which people always forget to mention the part at the end where after God appears before Job he heals him, brings his family back to life, and gives him twice as many possessions as he had before, but I digress and also fear I've just opened myself up to pages of rebuttals), but he isn't the devil. Lucifer is the fallen one, and the one who burns in hell etc, etc you know the story. So what was the point of this mini-rant?

Jack Chick acts like an expert, but he doesn't appear know the major figures of Christianity. Mind you it won't stop me from referring to the devil as Satan simply because it's done so throughout this tract, and I don't want to be confusing

Anyway, a new challenger appears! And Brenda knows that she won't be someone who likes her puns.

Wait, I just thought of something. If those kids are possessed wouldn't going into church cause them to start having convulsions or start bursting into flame or something? Once again Jack Chick disappoints me by not showing the part that could potentially be awesome to see.

Now that I think about it wouldn't it be neat if those witches remained witches, but witches for Jesus. Then you could have cool magical wars going on in the background. Then again I don't think poison and razor blades in candy cursing kids to serve Jesus would be good PR. Yeah okay that makes sense.

Okay so lets finally get to the point of this Chick Tract: What is Halloween? And right from the start Jack gets it wrong. Yes there was a pagan tradition that Halloween is derived from. It was likely a festival that occurred celebrating the changing of seasons. In other words:

Is it turning to winter, spring, summer, or autumn?
If yes: Get shitfaced
If no: Keep toiling

Like many of these festivals the Christians came along, told them to replace the seasons with Jesus and took them for their own. Since it didn't change much everyone just went with it.

Halloween: Hallow: meaning holy, -een: short for evening. The name is shortened from 'All Hallowed Evening', which was the night before All Saints Day, which is surprise! A Christian holiday! The Jack-o-lantern? Those were originally carved from turnips and used to pay homage to those in purgatory. The pumpkin that you so nicely illustrated there isn't even native to Europe! Trick-or-treating? Originally a trade of food for prayers for the dead, not human sacrifices! What's this? Jack Chick lying and setting up strawmen in order to push his stupid message? What a shocker!

Lucifer Morningstar you clever bastard...

And something just sounds weird about saying that the children who are murdered are no accident. It might just be me, but I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't stick poison or razor blades in candy accidentally. That's be pretty deliberate.

And once more our Satan worshippers forget that Satan has nothing to do with Halloween.

Brenda, you're an evil Satan worshipper in a Jack Chick comic. There's no way you can talk her down, so just do what non-Christians in a Chick Tract do best at this point.

Start murdering. You'll be on the FBI's terrorist list next to Osama bin Laden and Harry Garner in no time.

Oh or they just ignore her and wait for the kids to come home.

I wish we could've seen a witch hunt...

Though in that second panel I notice Becky isn't there. Okay, I'll settle for an easy exorcism if the next page shows her hunting down Brenda and the two battling it out.