A Glance about Halloween

June 5th, 2008 by dora

Halloween
Halloween is a modern-day holiday which is celebrated in the night of October 31. It came from the ancient Pagan Celtic Festival of Samhain. The Samhain festival is celebration after the harvest season at Gaelic culture. Sometimes it was called as Celtic New Year. Traditionally, it was a time used by the ancient pagans to take supplies stock and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops, on October 31.

The origin of Halloween from ALL-hallow-even, as it is the eve of “All Hallows’Day”, which is now also known as All Saints’Day. The activities in Halloween celebration are trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting “haunted houses” carving jack-o-lanterns.

The food for Halloween celebration is candy apple, because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest and candy apple made by rolling whole apples in sticky sugar syrup, and sometimes rolling them in nuts.

Halloween costumes are outfits worn around October 31 with dressing up often designed to imitate supernatural and scary beings, commonly with mask. Costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as vampire, ghost, skeleton, witches, and devils. Costuming became popular for Halloween parties in American in the early 1900s as often for adults as for children. The costumes are occasionally featured in popular movies, carnival season, science fiction and fantasy events and book releases.

If you want halloween costumes, disney costumes and star wars costumes you can find at some online stores or your nearby stores.

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