I bet Ryan digs Jethro Tull

@carbine090909

7 ай бұрын

😂

@giuseppelogiurato5718

7 ай бұрын

Do you think he'd enjoy Samhain?

@giuseppelogiurato5718

7 ай бұрын

Do you think he'd enjoy Samhain?

@wadejnelson

7 ай бұрын

Dr. Reeves’ choice of topics is refreshingly unpredictable, what a joy to have him back

@paulkelly2701

7 ай бұрын

Songs from the Wood, eh?

It's great seeing Ryan back and posting videos, great scholar, and historian.

@PsychoBible

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, I was like, "New content?!"

@LoveTripz

6 ай бұрын

halloween is in oct 31st

@LoveTripz

6 ай бұрын

i know evryone clelebrates halloween

@LoveTripz

6 ай бұрын

@LoveTripz

6 ай бұрын

yeah, i was like "omg!!"

I love thinking about the Robert Burns 1786 poem “Halloween” when thinking about the history of Halloween. The poem is a series a vignettes about young people telling stories, sneaking around, playing pranks, getting into trouble, and scaring themselves. It’s really interesting how similar 18th century rural Scottish Halloween was to our modern ideas of the holiday. Obviously many thing have changed since then, I don’t think the poem mentions any costumes, but it’s clear that the core idea of the holiday is already there. Ghost stories, food, and young people being let loose seem to be a Halloween staple going back centuries, at least in some parts of the world.

Let's get him started on Valentine's Day, that sounds like a great video.

@makaylawheeler4420

7 ай бұрын

Lupercalia

@Danny-fh5eh

6 ай бұрын

Omg yas

Thank you Dr. Reeves. Concise and very informative. I do not "do" Halloween, but as a pastor in a local church I get lot's of questions about its origin every year. This one goes goes into my "Hallloween Folder"! Bless you my friend.

@ChristsDisciples

7 ай бұрын

❤

@gracewhite1601

6 ай бұрын

Im tradition Roman Catholic and I do Halloween without the gore

@seniorsurveyor

6 ай бұрын

Just curious, by "tradition", do you mean pre-Vac II?@@gracewhite1601

@faulknersealock5575

6 ай бұрын

It's refreshing to see a pastor online getting as much information as they can to be prepared for the questions you know are coming every year makes me believe you a pretty good pastor anyways happy Halloween God bless

@ChristsDisciples

6 ай бұрын

@@faulknersealock5575 right!!

Ryan, it's sooooo great to have you back! You were one of the content producers that got me into KZread, and I still go back and relisten to your old content, but having new content to look forward to is like "Christmas" every day.

@elteacher6410

7 ай бұрын

I'm looking forward to Professor Reeves' video class on The History of Christmas, now that you mention it.

So glad you are back with these lectures. I love them.

So glad your back, definitely one of the most underated channels on youtube 😀

Welcome back sir! I'm one of the lucky folks who got to binge all of your church history lectures during the lockdowns and am very glad to see more new videos from you. Just wanted to thank you for all you do, I have learned so much from you!

Don’t go away again. The new content is great!

@ChristsDisciples

7 ай бұрын

❤

I'm so grateful for your videos and I'm glad you are making them again.

Found your channel a few months ago when I was leaving a oneness Pentecostal church and your history on the early church helped me a ton to leave the modalist heresy, thank you!

@ChristsDisciples

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Jesus !!! Praise God

@calebdesjardins616

7 ай бұрын

@@ChristsDisciples praise God!

@ulty1472

6 ай бұрын

Praise be to God, you were able to escape modalism!

@LoveTripz

6 ай бұрын

praise be to god!

I am a Unlicensed Non-Certified historian (that sounds classier than a history nut). One thing I have learned is history is A LOT more complicated than a lot of people Get. This s a Classic example.

@AnnaBananaRepublic

7 ай бұрын

You sound like my dad. Do you also give an “Application To Date My Daughter” form to visiting boys? Does it also ask “Do you own a van?” 😂 I heart nerds.

@v0idlike

6 ай бұрын

Do you have any interesting topics you'd recommend?

@titusmctavish2852

6 ай бұрын

@@v0idlikehonestly if you’re interested in the history of random things, just pick one and start looking stuff up. I just did a short presentation on the history of cheesecake just because it seemed interesting. Good luck!

It was cool to see my 12th-great grandfather, William Brewster, illustrated at least twice in this video. He's shown, in prayer, with other Mayflower pilgrims. He'd have been beside himself, seeing the future goings-on during the evening of October 31st. Even Christmas festivities would have stirred him up.

I've watched a LOT of videos on the "history of Halloween" and I must say, THIS is one of my favorites. It's more in depth, without all the fluff. Straight to the point AND at the same time giving us the history that other narrators don't! I'm sooo glad that YOU are narrating your channel and NOT some AI, because of THAT, you got a NEW SUBSCRIBER!!! YAY!!!

In Scotland going from house to house for treats is called guising. And traditionally we had carved lanterns made from turnips (neeps) it has become very Americanised in modern times to the point that pumpkins have replaced turnips and kids call it trick or treating now rather than guising. But the practice must have its roots in Irish and Scottish tradition to have been practiced in parallel in America.

@steadysmv

7 ай бұрын

The carving of turnips in Scotland and Ireland led directly to the carving of pumpkins in the USA. Pumpkins were much more readily available here.

@Waterhouse1666

7 ай бұрын

@@steadysmv and a hell of a lot easier to carve 😆 partly why they have been replaced in Scotland, that and the Americanisation of the festival. I do get annoyed that kids don't call it guising anymore, the diminishing of the scots language continues.

@thadtheman3751

6 ай бұрын

@@Waterhouse1666 And it is much easier to put a candle inside a pumpkin.

@anneshields2010

6 ай бұрын

Yeah when the Irish first went to the states they took Halloween with them now it’s huge in the states

@tiffanygrever8092

6 ай бұрын

I'm surprised he didn't mention the story of Jack o 'lantern supposedly an Irish men that got himself into some trouble.

Thank you so much, Dr. Reeves for restarting your wonderful films. The quality of work is excellent.

Thank you for making this video. I watched this with my entire family including my 73 year old mother, 58 year old aunt, and my 4 year old. We really enjoyed it

This is one of those channels that went dead but I saved my subscription anyway, thinking I might want to rewatch it all in the future... I'm glad I saved it, because I would've forgotten about it otherwise. The new videos are different, but I am enjoying them so far. Thank you Dr. Reeves; you make informative and entertaining videos. You are protestant, but you are fair, and you never try to make the Roman Church (nor the Orthodox/Oriental Churches) look foolish in order to bolster the protestant sect with which you identify... I consider this channel to be a good companion to the channel "Gospel Simplicity", also run by a protestant man who is not a crazy person.

Years ago, i learned from The Simpsons that Halloween is “a yearly custom” that eventually became “an annual tradition.” I think that is quite insightful.

@Investigate_Mermaids

6 ай бұрын

🤣 Ahh we have learned so much from the simpsons

@Window4503

6 ай бұрын

So does that mean before it was a yearly custom, it was a ritual done once every orbit?

I'm glad that you're back on You Tube. I've learned a lot from your videos and I look forward to new ones.

Oh dude I'm so glad you're back!! Your history of the church videos are incredible!! Welcome back :)

So thrilled you're back! Definitely my favorite KZread history Channel! God bless!

Thanks Ryan, this is a greatly appreciated video, your explanation of folk history and how it is different from tracing an idea to its origins is helpful.

That was definitely the most rational and thorough treatment of the topic of Halloween's history that I've encountered. Nice work, Ryan! God bless!

Thank you so much for returning these videos have sparked such an interest in me to learn about the history of the church

So glad you are back. I stated subbed to your channel (like others) for so long hoping I'd get that random notification one day you were making videos again. Thank you again.

looks like from the comments this is first video in a while. Let me join in and say Yes! I am very happy to see him post a new video also! I learned so much from watching some of his videos on LoTR and also real life church history topics from a few years back! And now this video came up “randomly” on my feed and I thought, ohhhh yay! I have not watched this guy in a while. So yes! I am very glad, I very much enjoy his calm, measured, succinct, and yet, captivating speaking and presentation style! Bravo!

Love you brother, so glad you're posting on youtube again!

Another well balanced and well done video sir! Thank you from a Catholic fan of your channel.

Great to have you back, Dr Reeves.

Glad to see a new video from you, Ryan.

So glad you’re back!! Looking forward to listening!

Ryan, its so good to see you posting videos again.

Great to see new videos from you, thanks for this one.

The explanation of folk history as a sort of disclaimer was so good. I subbed because of that alone! Awesome, awesome video. Thank you!

Thank you for coming back ❤

Thank you so much for your work!

Excellent! I am a youth pastor sometimes asked by parents what they should do around halloween. Having this is a resource is very helpful, thank you!

@ChristsDisciples

7 ай бұрын

❤

@Investigate_Mermaids

6 ай бұрын

I suggest omitting the blood sacrifice part

He’s back! My favorite historian

I'm glad you're back making content.

This was absolutely great! Well researched and amazing perspective on history!

I am so glad you’re back, Dr. Reeves

Excited that you started posting again. Cheers Ryan.

Welcome back! You should make more of the 'Century history' videos or something similar. Loved those!!

Thank you, Ryan! You bring knowledge and understanding to this crazy world. And you do it with a WIT of a perfect professor!

Glad you’re uploading again

So glad you’re back, brother

Awesome i've been waiting for you to do this thank you

Thank you, love your videos and teaching style

Man I missed hearing that outro music. Such a Pavlovian dopamine hit. Glad to have you back!

So glad you're back. Looking forward to Holliday celebrations with you.

Started supporting the Patreon at a small amount, but will up the amount in the future when I can. Great work. Blessings.

@ChristsDisciples

7 ай бұрын

❤

Glad to see you posting again. I hope you will do a video on christmas as well. Don't be hesitant to include as much information as possible, I think it will be appreciated.

Good to see another video from you!

So glad this dude is back!

Jim, I love you! ♥️ Keep up the good work man!

Glad this man is back making KZread videos.

Bro! I’m glad you’re back!

The legend has returned

This is very helpful :) Thanks for clearing things up

I'm putting together a Halloween themed D&D session for my friends and this video was exactly what I was looking for as a springboard. Thanks!

@RyanReevesM

7 ай бұрын

May all your rolls be nat 20

I missed you Ryan, great content!

I loved watching this. Thank you!

Another great video! Thank you

Halloween was my favorite holiday to decorate for when we lived in the Metroplex. Now we are out in BFN and no one would see it. I am currently making a Mermaid costume for my two year old granddaughter. Loved this video. Loved also that you brought in all the correct ingredients to make the true cake that is Halloween.

whoa. new video from ryan. Praise God this channel is still going. so awesome.

Currently at work - decided to LIKE this post so that I can come back and watch it later. Super excited

Ryan I’m glad you are back!

1st time viewer. Really enjoyed your video. Look forward to more content🤘

I'm so glad this man returned.

One of the best videos ever made that describes the origin of Halloween and how it morphed into the fun costume and candyfest I enjoyed as a kid (and to a small extent still do now 😇). It really does come across like putting together ingredients to bake a cake.

Interesting and fun during the Halloween season! Thank you!

This may become the best/authoritative History of Halloween video on YT -- excellent

That was refreshing. Thank you.

The best explanation I have ever heard, I have a MA in Theology and Folklore! Thank you so much!

Great video! Having spent much time studying the history of masking traditions in the West, (mummers, Commedia dell'arte, etc) I never fully dove into the huge subject of Halloween to any great extent. Thank you!

Ryan Reeves is once again posting videos regularly, this is such a great time to be alive.

great work sir. your excellent content has earned you a sub 🎃

Excellent Job Rya!.. I dabble in research in History and I must say you are correct!, I am looking forward to Your presentation on Thanks giving, Christmas and Easter!. Ryan you are a true Scholar. Thank You for the education!

Thank you for this video.

Hey Ryan, good points brother. Good to see you back 👍

Well presented history lecture. We thank you Sir.

Thanks for this very clear summary of how Americanized the celebration of Halloween is!

I've always been interested in the history of Halloween 🎃 this hit the spot thank you 👿

Good round-up. I’d suggest anything longer include a review of the works of Charles Coloumbe on the subject, who has a parallel take but from a distinctly more Catholic emphasis. Things I think should have been included: 1) the Catholic Calendar is driven by “Evening Came, and Morning came, the first day…” and therefore All Saints Day begins in the Evensong and Compline of October 31st. 2) The liturgical colors for All Saints Day is white, signifying the Saints are in the Church Triumphant. 3) the liturgical colors for All Souls Day, November 2nd, are Black (for Masses for the dead), a particular shade of dark emerald green, and orange. But where does the orange as a ‘Hallowtide’ color come from? No, not pumpkins and squashes. Rather, from the fact that Masses for the Dead use *unbleached* beeswax candles, which have the natural orange coloration in them from pollen. The unbleached candles are distinctly not white, because it is a Mass for the dead in Purgatory, the Church Expectant, unshriven souls on their way to bleached perfection (white) paying the temporal price for their sins (their eternal price, damnation, has been paid by baptism, confession and absolution, unction, etc…..all Sacraments pointing to Jesus Christ’s sacrifice and instituted by His example and pronounced good). So the ‘Holloween’ color of Hallowtide of that particular hue of orange is not from Pumpkins (unknown to catholic Europe) but from unbleached candles used in Masses for the dead. A further note: All Saints Day is a Feast of Holy Obligation, but All Souls’ Day is not. The Church Militant (us) do have the duty to pray for the souls in purgatory, as they can pray for us, but cannot pray for themselves (the example of Lazarus on Abraham’s company, and the Rich man’s ineffective prayer).

@samurguy9906

7 ай бұрын

I always thought the Rich man was in Hell rather than purgatory, assuming I’m thinking of the right parable

@GeorgeSmileyOBE

7 ай бұрын

@@samurguy9906 that is a good point, and I confess, I do not know what the Church teaches on this parable, so forgive my imprecision. I do note, however, the Rich Man has an attitude of *hope* in his unheard prayer…and in Hell there is no hope. In addition, the Rich Man has concern, compassion, fear, for those still alive, and begs for testimony from death to alert them to his torments. In Hell, again, you would have no hope, and your eternal torture would be your infinite self-consciousness all bound in self that you are now restricted from saving anyone else. However, there are pious stories of shades from Hell warning the living of the stain of mortal sin. So I gotta say…I dunno, and maybe someone smarter and better than me at apologetics can tease this one out or point to some glaringly obvious teaching from a Church Doctor that will make me even more apologetic and slap my head ‘D’ho!’

@timothynorton6137

7 ай бұрын

​@@samurguy9906Protestant vs Catholic belief. I'm not sure if Catholics believe anyone goes to hell until the Final Judgment. I'm not Catholic and don't believe in purgatory.

@bman5257

6 ай бұрын

@@timothynorton6137Catholics do believe that the danmed before the Second Coming will have their souls experiencing damnation, and their souls and bodies will be punished after the Second Coming. The Catholic Church doesn’t have a teaching on how to interpret the Parable of The Rich Man and Lazarus, but I think the standard Catholic reading is that these are the two kinds of places people ended up in Hades/Sheol before the Resurrection. Either Paradise/Abraham’s Bosom/Limbo of the Patriarchs for those who died in friendship with Christ, or the eternal hell of the damned. I think the standard interpretation is the rich man is damned in the parable.

@kelsi8593

6 ай бұрын

​@samurguy9906 I think you are right that the rich man was implied to be in hell.

i clicked on this video expecting a dark tale but i had a great time. thank you for this

thanks for this down to earth history lesson. bad ass.

Thank you, Professor! Here's to hoping the videos you incidentally mentioned, on The Hustory of Christmas, and on The History of Valentine's Day, materialize. God bless you.

I would love to hear about the other holidays as we get nearer to them!!

Let’s blow this one up guys!

Yay, Ryan is back.

Ryan that was a very thorough video. Thank you for posting it. By the way can you recommend any literature which would expound on these ideas of the history of Halloween?

@RyanReevesM

7 ай бұрын

Yep. Book link in description.

Good to see you again. I also like your new format. Was there a sweeping change on your life, like moving to Europe?

Good information. Thank you!!!

You weren't kidding. No Halloween, no Christmas, no fun.

@markwhite8332

6 ай бұрын

Celebrate wht culture

Thank you for coming back Ryan. I appreciate you for all this free videos lectures that I've been listening for awhile. I would love to see these wonderful videos on podcast. If that is something you consider doing, that will be great. God bless you for all your efforts and may He increase wisdom and knowledge to you. 🙏🏼🩷

Nice mention of Vallencey! Most people have no clue who he was or what his impact was on the "legends" that surround Halloween.

"Patron saints of pumpkin spice" lolololol😂😂😂

For me, Halloween is the absolute most wonderful [month] holiday. I call it Halloweentober and we watch Halloween-centric movies, TV and read books. We decorate, mostly inside. Im still Catholic but this holiday is a holiday of atmospheric snd mood for me. The jack-o'-lanterns and fallen leaves, the horror icons and the chill in the air. It's the time i feel completely happy. It's very much like an autumnal Christmas for me in spirit. And I'm depressed now that it's temporarily over.