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Origins
What we now know as Halloween or Halloween is celebrated more than 3000 years made by the Celts, a warlike people inhabiting areas in Ireland, England, Scotland andFrance. Precisely on October 31, the Celts celebrated the new year with Samhain, a pagan festival. With European immigration to the United States, mainly of Irish Catholics in 1846, came the traditionof Halloween to America. When it comes to Halloween or Halloween you think of costumes, makeup, party, candy and children, but tradition says that his celebration was not always festive and cheerful,and that the rites were practiced during the night had a character and religious cleansing.
History of Halloween, like any other festival's history is inspired through traditions that have transpiredthrough ages from one generation to another. We follow them mostly as did our dads and grandpas. And as this process goes on, much of their originality get distorted with newer additions andalterations. It happens so gradually, spanning over so many ages, that we hardly come to know about these distortions. At one point of time it leaves us puzzled, with its multicolored faces. Digging into itshistory helps sieve out the facts from the fantasies which caught us unaware. Yet, doubts still lurk deep in our soul, especially when the reality differs from what has taken a deep seated root intoour beliefs. The history of Halloween Day, as culled from the net, is being depicted here in this light. This is to help out those who are interested in washing off the superficial hues to reach thecore and know things as they truly are. 'Trick or treat' may be an innocent fun to relish on the Halloween Day. But just think about a bunch of frightening fantasies and the scary stories featuringghosts, witches, monsters, evils, elves and animal sacrifices associated with it. They are no more innocent. Are these stories a myth or there is a blend of some reality? Come and plunge into the...
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