This newsletter is about the dead. It appears on the second day of the 3-day festival of the dead known as Allhallowtide. “Hallow” means sacred, and “tide” means time or season, as in Christmastide, Yuletide or Eastertide. The latter is in fact its counterpart, another 3-day festival, appearing at the other end of the year in spring, the celebration of rebirth and resurrection. Easter is a Christianization of the spring festival of Eostre, a Germanic goddess of fertility and rebirth.