All Hallows eve

During pagan tomes Halloween was celebrated to ward off evil spirits.  The children had to wear masks in order to confuse the spirits.  This ties in with the poem Beowolf which took place during pagan times.  Beowolf is considered a hero even though all he did was use his strength to break why ever got in his way.  To me thats not a hero, a hero is someone who shows humility, has power but knows when to use it, uses different ways to find solutions out of problems.  Unlike Oedipus which killed a man on the street and only cared about the prophecy, after he saved his people from the sphinx.  To me a hero is someone who does a job that requires courage and then they do not need thanks to keep putting themselves in harms way to save strangers.  So i have a different definition of hero than the traditional sense but who ever said i was normal