Halloween
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HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN
Halloween is a celebration of British culture that is celebrated on the night of October 31.
Its origins date back to the Celts more than 2,500 years ago, when the Celtic yearended at the end of summer, on 31 October of our calendar (Samhain). Cattle were brought from the fields to the stables for the winter. That last day, it was assumed that the spirits could leave thecemetery and take over the bodies of the living to raise, ask food and cursing. They were victims of spells if they refused their requests: you give me something or I get into mischief, which is thetranslation of "Trick or Treat" (Trick or Treat).
To avoid this, the Celtic villages and houses littered the "decorated" with bones, skulls and other nasty things, so spend long dead scared. Hence thetradition of decorating houses with sinister motives in the current Halloween costumes and saints. It is therefore a party associated with the coming of the pagan gods to life.
The church of Romedecided to convert to Catholicism festival. Was instituted on November 1 as All Saints Day, which in England was called "All Hallows 'Day", and the night before "All Hallows' Eve" which subsequentlyresulted in "Halloween".
The party was exported to the United States by European immigrants in the nineteenth century, around 1846. But no mass was first celebrated in 1921. That year was the firstHalloween parade in Minnesota and then was followed by other states. The internationalization of Halloween came in the late '70s and early '80s thanks to movies and television series.
Today childrendress for the occasion and walk the streets begging for candy door to door. After knocking children utter the phrase "Trick or Treat". If adults give them candy, money or any other reward, isinterpreted to have accepted the deal. If instead they refuse, the boys spend a little joke.
Halloween is a holiday based on fear, death, the undead, black magic and mystical monsters. The "characters"...
Halloween is a celebration of British culture that is celebrated on the night of October 31.
Its origins date back to the Celts more than 2,500 years ago, when the Celtic yearended at the end of summer, on 31 October of our calendar (Samhain). Cattle were brought from the fields to the stables for the winter. That last day, it was assumed that the spirits could leave thecemetery and take over the bodies of the living to raise, ask food and cursing. They were victims of spells if they refused their requests: you give me something or I get into mischief, which is thetranslation of "Trick or Treat" (Trick or Treat).
To avoid this, the Celtic villages and houses littered the "decorated" with bones, skulls and other nasty things, so spend long dead scared. Hence thetradition of decorating houses with sinister motives in the current Halloween costumes and saints. It is therefore a party associated with the coming of the pagan gods to life.
The church of Romedecided to convert to Catholicism festival. Was instituted on November 1 as All Saints Day, which in England was called "All Hallows 'Day", and the night before "All Hallows' Eve" which subsequentlyresulted in "Halloween".
The party was exported to the United States by European immigrants in the nineteenth century, around 1846. But no mass was first celebrated in 1921. That year was the firstHalloween parade in Minnesota and then was followed by other states. The internationalization of Halloween came in the late '70s and early '80s thanks to movies and television series.
Today childrendress for the occasion and walk the streets begging for candy door to door. After knocking children utter the phrase "Trick or Treat". If adults give them candy, money or any other reward, isinterpreted to have accepted the deal. If instead they refuse, the boys spend a little joke.
Halloween is a holiday based on fear, death, the undead, black magic and mystical monsters. The "characters"...
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