In a book documenting his travels through the United States, a Frenchman commented that “there is nothing funny about Halloween,” a holiday characterized by an “evil force” and “infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. . . . There is nothing more unhealthy than this childish sorcery, behind all the dressing up and the presents. . . . And it is no accident that some [adults] stick needles or razor blades into the apples or cookies they hand out to the children.” This screed against Halloween was not written by a prudish religious conservative, but by the atheist sociologist and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard.
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