Monday 5th November in the UK is Guy Fawkes night.  Some sources indicate that this replaced the Samhain Fire Festival, which was transferred in Britain to the night after the Gunpowder Plot - Guy Fawkes's attempt to blow up parliament in 1605. The ritual burning of the Guy certainly resembles the Pagan sacrifice of the corn king!

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