Night before Halloween

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 12:42 PM 10/31/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Hollie B wrote:
>
>#Is All Hallow's Eve considered the night before or the
>#night of Halloween?
>#
>#Annie Bush
>
>Same night.
>
>Halloween (I learned to write it as "Hallowe'en", in the prehistoric
>1950s) < Hallow Even < All Hallows' Even.
>
>-- Mark A. Mandel

= the eve before All Saints' (all the hallowed ones') Day, Nov. 1.