very few pagan traditions are dark in any way. Oester, Yule, Samhain.... all have flowed through to create the Easter, Christmas, and All Saints traditions we're familiar with now, such as rabbits and eggs (signs of fertility), lights and evergreens (signs of life and promise in the dead of winter), and scary costumes to hide ourselves from the dead at a time when the veil between our worlds is supposedly at its thinnest.
But, it's a pagan link. And to some religions, anything 'pagan' means evil or satanic, rather than what it truly means which is essentially peasant.... the earth based religions and festivals of common folk, farmers, etc.
