Halloween 2019: History of Halloween festival and why it is fun

With Halloween around corner, supermarkets will soon get stocked up and Google will be filled with Halloween costumes searches. celebration of spooky festival of Halloween is celebrated on October 31 every year. awaited occasion has people finding best outfits and preparing for festival is best thing about Halloween. However, how such a unique way of celebrating a festival came into existence? Here is a history of celebrating Halloween and what all activities are a part of celebration.

History of Halloween

Samhain

According to World Book Encylopedia, Halloween is an ancient pagan festival celebrated by Celtic people over 2000 years ago. Celts had a belief that dead people could walk among living at this time of year. During Samhain, which is occasion marking end of harvest season, living could visit dead. But according to Bible, y cant contact living.

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Halloween costumes, candy, and trick or treat

According to a book Halloween, An American Holiday states that some of Celts wore scary and ghoulish costumes so that spirit that wanders around would mistakenly consider m one of m and leave m alone. Ors offered sweets to spirits to impress m. As time evolved, Halloween costumes became spooky, scary, funny and creative.   

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Trick-or-treating is a candy-grabbing concept, during this family that would provide treats to children in hopes that y wouldn’t prank on m. Thus it is called trick-or-treat. In late 1800s, festival transitioned from its original customs into newer ones in America and festival became more about get-togers than about witches and ghosts. Halloween parties became a common way to celebrate festival. se parties had games, foods and festive costumes.

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Halloween Pumpkins, or jack-o’-lanterns

In early medieval period, people went door to door asking for food in return for a prayer for dead. y would carry turnip lanterns which were hallowed out. Some believe that lanterns were to keep spirit away. During 1800s, turnips were replaced by pumpkins as y were easy to hollow out and carve. se pumpkins are w practically iconic and synymous to Halloween.

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