Just because something is not associated with Roman Catholicism in some part of the globe does not mean it's not associated with Roman Catholicism in another part of the globe. Syncretism usually accommodates the local variety of paganism. In Ireland that would be druids.

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/celtic-halloween

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I don't see why adopting local cultural forms is such a bad thing. When peoples join the universal Church, they bring their culture with them. Historically, this often added a local flavor to preexisting Catholic feasts

Local culture can contaminate. I prefer the pure to the profane. Separation and purity are integral to the concepts of holiness, sanctification, and sainthood.

The New Testament was written in a specific time and place in history, namely, amidst a Jewish and pagan milieu in a corner of the Roman Empire. The writers were influenced by the cultural practice of their time, and Scripture itself is full of cultural references that don't apply directly to the present day.

Tell me where you are finding the pure, unadulterated cultural practice of Christianity.

Halloween is not associated with Catholics. Its modern form started in protestant US.

And the whole 'witch folklore' would be forgotten in catholic lands if not from protestantism - witch-hunt histerics flourished in anglo-german protestant lands and kept the associated folcklore alive.

Even the date is wrong, it would make more sense in the catholic calendar to associate it with Nov2 (The day of the dead in purgatory, like in mexico), than with Nov 1st, the day of all saints in heaven.

Here in Brazil, it is only big with protestants (like luterans/calvinists, not like pentecostals) who pushed for it, helped by american media/movies/etc. Today more schools do HW trick-or-treat (children like candies), but it is quite recent. Secular/woke/commies see it as another woke-festival.