The True Story of Halloween
By Lisa Page
Halloween originated thousands of years ago, making it one of the oldest holidays. The Halloween that we celebrated today, has had many influences from many cultures over the years, such as the Roman's Pomona Day, Celtic festival of Samhain, and the Christian holidays of All Saints and All Souls Days.
Hundreds of years ago the Celts lived, in what we now Great Britain and Northern France. They worshipped nature and had many gods, the sun god being their favorite. This was the god that dictated their work and their rest schedules. He was also known for making the earth beautiful and the crops grow plentiful .
Celtic New Year was on November 1st. Every year, the Celts celebrated, with a festival and marking the end of summer, (the season of the sun) and the beginning of winter (the season of darkness and cold.)
On October 31st once all the crops were harvested and stored away for the long winter, they would extinguish the cooking fires in the homes. The Celtic priests, also called Druids, would gather in the dark oak forest (oak trees were considered sacred) upon the hilltop. Here they would make new fires and offer sacrifices consisting of crops and animals. They would then begin to dance around the fires. It was at this ceremony the season of the sun would pass and the season of darkness would begin.
In the morning the Druids took an ember from their fires and gave it to each of the families. They would take the ember home and start new cooking fires. These fires would keep the homes warm and free from evil spirits, until the season of sun returned.
November 1st was the festival called Samhain (pronounced "sow-en"). This festival lasted for 3 days. People would parade around in costumes made from the skins and heads of animals. It was this festival that became the first Halloween
During the first century that the Romans invaded Britain, they brought many of their festivals and customs, with them. One of these was Pomona Day, named for their goddess of fruits and gardens. This festival was also celebrated around November 1st. After hundreds of years of Romans, the Celtic's Samhain festival became mixed with the Roman's Pomona Day creating one major fall holiday.
The next influence came about when the new Christian religion spread throughout Europe and Britain. In the year 835 AD the Roman Catholic Church made November 1st a church holiday honoring all the saints. This day was called All Saint's Day, Hallowmas, or All Hallows. Years later, the church called November 2nd, All Souls Day, to honor the dead. It was celebrated with big bonfires, parades, and people dressing up as saints, angels and devils.
The spread of Christianity did not make people forget their customs. People continued to celebrate the festivals of Samhain and Pomona Day on October 31st. Over the years all customs from these holidays mixed. October 31st was All Hallow Even, later All Hallow's Eve, Hallowe'en and then Halloween, as we know it today.
Halloween as we know it, includes all of these influences, Pomona Day's apples, nuts, and harvest, the Festival of Samhain's black cats, magic, evil spirits and death, All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day, ghosts, skeletons and skulls.
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Halloween originated thousands of years ago, making it one of the oldest holidays. The Halloween that we celebrated today, has had many influences from many cultures over the years, such as the Roman's Pomona Day, Celtic festival of Samhain, and the Christian holidays of All Saints and All Souls Days.
Hundreds of years ago the Celts lived, in what we now Great Britain and Northern France. They worshipped nature and had many gods, the sun god being their favorite. This was the god that dictated their work and their rest schedules. He was also known for making the earth beautiful and the crops grow plentiful .
Celtic New Year was on November 1st. Every year, the Celts celebrated, with a festival and marking the end of summer, (the season of the sun) and the beginning of winter (the season of darkness and cold.)
On October 31st once all the crops were harvested and stored away for the long winter, they would extinguish the cooking fires in the homes. The Celtic priests, also called Druids, would gather in the dark oak forest (oak trees were considered sacred) upon the hilltop. Here they would make new fires and offer sacrifices consisting of crops and animals. They would then begin to dance around the fires. It was at this ceremony the season of the sun would pass and the season of darkness would begin.
In the morning the Druids took an ember from their fires and gave it to each of the families. They would take the ember home and start new cooking fires. These fires would keep the homes warm and free from evil spirits, until the season of sun returned.
November 1st was the festival called Samhain (pronounced "sow-en"). This festival lasted for 3 days. People would parade around in costumes made from the skins and heads of animals. It was this festival that became the first Halloween
During the first century that the Romans invaded Britain, they brought many of their festivals and customs, with them. One of these was Pomona Day, named for their goddess of fruits and gardens. This festival was also celebrated around November 1st. After hundreds of years of Romans, the Celtic's Samhain festival became mixed with the Roman's Pomona Day creating one major fall holiday.
The next influence came about when the new Christian religion spread throughout Europe and Britain. In the year 835 AD the Roman Catholic Church made November 1st a church holiday honoring all the saints. This day was called All Saint's Day, Hallowmas, or All Hallows. Years later, the church called November 2nd, All Souls Day, to honor the dead. It was celebrated with big bonfires, parades, and people dressing up as saints, angels and devils.
The spread of Christianity did not make people forget their customs. People continued to celebrate the festivals of Samhain and Pomona Day on October 31st. Over the years all customs from these holidays mixed. October 31st was All Hallow Even, later All Hallow's Eve, Hallowe'en and then Halloween, as we know it today.
Halloween as we know it, includes all of these influences, Pomona Day's apples, nuts, and harvest, the Festival of Samhain's black cats, magic, evil spirits and death, All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day, ghosts, skeletons and skulls.
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Hello, never really had read about the history of halloween, I find very interesting the article.
ResponderEliminarI learned that the tradition comes from the ancient Celts, where they celebrated a festival the end of summer called samhin, was a very important night for them because remembered their dead and ancestor.
for my halloween is a fantasy, fear and terror of the night comes from this belief, this belief today is well known in the world and the people decorate their houses with pumpkins, skeletons, black cats dress up as witches and anything that might cause terror.
I think also the holy day and the day of the dead are highly respected for people.
BY:Charley Valero
Halloween is a culture of Britain that it has extended to others countries of the world, the most of people enjoy with the arrival of november first, for the parties of disguises, for the sharing with the friends and family, the decorations of skulls, witches, and all those activities, but in reality, they don´t know the true story for which originated the halloween , in this occasion when I read article I realized that due to the festival of Samhain, that it means to sow, the people paraded with suits of skins and animal faces, of there this tradition began.
ResponderEliminarThe time pass, were uniting more traditions, as Saint´s Day, and of the Dead, this way this activities united for the November first and for that reason those disguises of death, of angels, of witches and others. I think that each country has differnts traditions, but in the course of the time mare cultures and traditions will be seen.
By Gladys Zambrano
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ResponderEliminarWell I have never celebrated Halloween because for me this day has something dark on it; even when nowadays people take it just like a day for fun. The real origins of this "celebration" are in a tradition of satanic people called DRUIDAS who in every year in october 31 were asking house by house some food to give an offering to a demon, when someone did not give them something they cursed that house and is there the reason for trick or treat. Every october 31 satanic sects do their offerings, even with kids they kidnap; so I think Halloween is not special at all.
ResponderEliminarBy: Edilmar Moreno
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ResponderEliminarHello!! well, Halloween is a very interesting celebration , it's good to know where it comes from this custom, for some people is just a game, and for others the opportunity to connect with the supernatural. I have never celebrated it, but I love to see how people dress. It's true that this celebration has its dark side for some people, and the evil is present, but for me it is just a holyday!! and if you're not thinking in the evil side... everything is gonna be cool!!
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ResponderEliminarDifferently of the diverse opinions of people about this subject, I have always known that this celebration is from another country, anyway I make the most of this day to stay at home watching horror movies as always and if I have the time just to tell histories with my cousins.
ResponderEliminarI almost never celebrate this day by going to parties nor worship ghosts or demons. Some people takes really serious about hating this day and there are others` celebrations that are also from other cultures and they don`t pay attention to them.
Now days it is just meant to be commercial about selling all kind of stuff and creating frights to kids.
By: Keiber Jaimes
Hi guys, great article, very rich because I really did not know the etymology of the celebration of Halloween, i always thought that we celebrated because of american influences, it is good to know the origin of this celebration because with the passage of time has become another of our celebrations on this side of the planet.
ResponderEliminarI'm not fanatical about the celebration of Halloween but I think that part of the costumes and make this occasion to share with your loved ones is something we should see in a good way, I do not think it is a “Pagan Party” as many believe it, because all cultures and societies have their own beliefs and as the article says Halloween is a compilation of the beliefs of different cultures.
By Nestor Osorio
i think that people always see the commercial side of the halloween, it is all about the costumes, the candies, the trick or treat and that kinds of stuffs, but i think that they not pay attention to what halloween is all about, the history and the reason of that celebration, the importance of the real meaning of halloween to a group of people; but everything changes and we can not help it, the celebrations come and go and the true meaning is lost. Nowadays people pay attention to what costume wear and what party go.
ResponderEliminarBy Diana Becerra
Hello.! Happy Halloween to all ... in my opinion, Halloween celebration today is just a product that companies sell for their own benefit, although I must admit I've never celebrated. It is also interesting to know the history because with it we can see the evolution that has occurred and how it has influenced in another countries. Well I hope you have a good day and see you at the midnight knock ... hehehe bye
ResponderEliminarby: Laura Ayala
Hello...
ResponderEliminarVery interesting the article had not read about halloween. More than all it is a custom of Great Britain and northern France. Here in Venezuela has become customary to see the children dressed up. Besides the festivals, where it receives a prize "the best costume of the night." Personally, I like Halloween because it is a time to enjoy and do something different. You can also enjoy making a joke with friends or making one for them.
By: Genesis Molina
I think Halloween is not important for most people because many of them are from different religions. On the other hand the children have fun with their mask and candy. Besides some people also enjoy because can have a fun time with a costume as a way out of the routine or perhaps try something new, it's good to know the story because most people like Halloween and do not know what is or where it comes from. so I found this article very interesting and i am goint to share this information with the children in my house.
ResponderEliminarhi, good morning people, the halloween is one of the most oldest traditions in the world, actually last night i was watching in the history channel the whole history about this traditions, i remember that they say that the people used to celebrate that for the two stages the stage of day and the stage of night and the used to giving thanks for the harvest and later the catolic church took this traditions in order to convert all this people in the catolicism by Yhonatan Garcia
ResponderEliminarWell, it seems interesting article and I did not know the history of Halloween, I am not particularly fan but sometimes I have participated in these festivals, I think that we should not associated with cultures that are not ours and adopt them as if they were.
ResponderEliminarI also believe that sometimes these festivities are misinterpreted and misused to make assumptions seem pagan holidays and rituals of worship the devil and the dark forces.
I think the distinction of cultures, beliefs, festivals and rituals is and should be native and appropriate for each country, and if dot be done with good intentions without distorting beliefs
By Eynor Cárdenas
In my opinion, nothing good comes out of Halloween; since I know the origin of this celebration and that the purpose is the worship of Satan. Many people think it is harmless, but for me it is a matter of very careful! If there is anything I dislike about American culture is debauchery, crime and Satanism that allow in the celebration of Halloween. And while in Latin America there are many holidays that resemble it, there’s no one with the highest rate of tragedies in our continent. For that and several other reasons, I disagree with the celebration of Halloween.
ResponderEliminarBy Yolmar Hernández
Halloween is celebrated on October 31st, in the USA and Canada. Venezuelans people had adopted that custom because of mix of cultures. Children in those countries dress in costumes like witches, bats, ghosts; visit their neighbors and ask for sweetes and say: " Trick or treat". I understand is a tradition, is part of their cultures, and I don´t have any problem about that. However, I don´t share the meaning about this holiday, because people believe the souls of dead people appeared on that date. I think this point generates a lot of point of views from people and religions.
ResponderEliminarHi guys! The celebration of Halloween is a custom of Anglo-Saxon countries (U.S., Canada, England). Halloween is the eve of all saints, but eventually became the celebration of terror, of witches, and ghosts. Halloween is a pagan tradition, I do not particularly like. I think the Halloween today is, above all, a business day, because they sell masks, costumes, candy, makeup, and other items. In Venezuela it is a tradition adopted, many people celebrate it, but do not even know its origin. I do not celebrate Halloween night is over, I gives me a little afraid.
ResponderEliminarGood evening, interesting article. I used to celebrate Halloween when I was a little kid, all the kids used to do it and it was fun back then, we used to get a lot of candies. But when I grew up I found out what the celebration really means so I don’t celebrate it anymore. This festivity can be use in so many bad ways. Some people with mental disorders and illness like to use this day to do harm, and most of the times children are the ones affected. Nowadays some people and companies use this “holiday” just to sell things and make money. I think we should celebrate the beautiful things we have in life and that definitely doesn’t include celebrating death and terror.
ResponderEliminarBy: Kiara Isidro
I was born in Coloncito a town of Tachira, here I never saw with my eyes halloween only in t.v. but when i arrived to san cristobal, in my work I have the opportunity of enjoy it! I was disguised of an evil zombie and the people took pictures with me it was a funny day I enjoyed a lot! that is the commercial part but I believe that halloween is a magical day because occurred the transition of the stations for that way a lot of cultures and religions believes reserve that day for their rituals, using that energy and creating catharsis in good or bad... be careful that day with your thoughts or wishes you never know who is hearing... happy halloween!!
ResponderEliminarby: Rumenique Meza
Halloween is a nice party that has been carried out in many places,and in particular it does not seem as bad as it looks so many religions, but if I am against all those things, rituals and "magic" which is performed on that day,and in particular it does not seem as bad as it looks so many religions, but if I am against all those things rituals and "magic" which is performed on that day. Flokoricamente is very nice to see people dress up and see how they are taking pictures besides having fun, however, i don't share a lot of this style of "partys",I think the best suit is when you want dress of yourself!, anyway....happy Halloween
ResponderEliminarBy: Ana Marquez.
Halloween is a nice party that has been carried out in many places,and in particular it does not seem as bad as it looks so many religions, but if I am against all those things, rituals and "magic" which is performed on that day. In popular folklore is very nice to see people dress up and see how they are taking pictures besides having fun, however, i don't share a lot of this style of "partys",I think the best suit is when you want dress of yourself!, anyway....happy Halloween.
ResponderEliminarBy: Ana Marquez.
I think that this day can be taken in different ways. I can see that Halloween has many ways of celebration, but there are some things that I’m not agree with, like the sacrifice of animals it should be the same celebration in the whole world with parties and good stuff but not with those kind of violent things because for sure there are kids involved and I don't think that's a good example.
ResponderEliminarIt is good to know the origin of this tradition. It is true that this custom has its dark side, but this is part of the belief of different cultures. It is an opportunity to connect with the supernatural world, although the true meaning is not equal. This day has been fun; it is nice to see various costumes. I think that seeing the positive, or negative side of halloween depends on each person, and their beliefs, religion, and creativity to share a day with their family, and friends in a special way to respect the memory of the dead.
ResponderEliminarPersonally, I didn’t know where Halloween came from. It’s interesting to know how people years ago celebrated this day. Many people think that Halloween it’s about parties, costumes, candies and celebration but they don’t really know the real story about it. Years ago, people sacrificed animals and they dressed up with their skins and heads. Thanks God, they don’t do that anymore; it would be an awful celebration of Halloween if they continue doing that.
ResponderEliminarPeople have many concepts about celebrating these days. Some go to big costumes parties, others just stay at home because they see Halloween as a normal day and they don’t really care about it.
For me, this topic is not as interesting as the previous ones. I have always loved Halloween, but I never took the time to learn how it was originated. To be honest, I don’t like history, although I enjoy knowing where things come from. I will continue seeing this as a holyday to wear costumes and ask for candies. Of course, I wish I could celebrate it here because it looks like a lot of fun even though I don’t like candies that much.
ResponderEliminarIn my point of view, this topic is interesting in the part of culture and history of world. I didn't know that Halloween is the mixed of several cultures; this is something that I am learning today. For me, I don't agree with celebrate this holiday in Venezuela. Because this is not part of our culture. However many people around the world celebrate Halloween taking the streets in costume and trick or treating door to door.
ResponderEliminarit is very cool to know where halloween comes from. When i was a kid i studied at a catholic school full of nuns, and they would always tell us that this holiday was a pagan festivity and a very sinful one, that intended to honor the devil, but i actually never saw it that way and i just thought how fun it seemed to be and how it is a shame that i dind't get to go asking for candies because we don't celebrate halloween in our culture.
ResponderEliminarI think that this culture is very interesting for their way of be and show it, besides nowadays we can find new histories, arts, and other things about it, something interesting this culture is their relation with death, fear, pain, and other things that transmit emotion and feeling that some people don’t like it but of same way they enjoy through movies and spectacles, other things interesting of this culture is that it’s celebrate around of the world, thus we can say that this culture is now of all and evolve throughout years.
ResponderEliminarMy point of view about this topic, maybe will sounds very hard for some of you guys, but i think, this is a very stupid tradition around the world.
ResponderEliminarI can understand this was very important for some people many years ago, but in our days is crazy to think about ghost, and death people, we should believe just in god and the good things in life.
For me it´s a great commercial day, because if you want to hang out with your friends you have to go to a club and BUY the tickets to get in, also you have to BUY the custom, so anyway in our country we shouldn´t celebrate this day because we don´t have the end of summer and the beginning of winter neither.
we don´t need to take any single celebration that americans do, we need to be ourselves.
This is a very interesting topic because, I did not know how people in different countries, can celebrate this holiday. I have never been in a Halloween party but, I think it is very fun, specially the costumes, though they use to be very expensive.
ResponderEliminarMy point of view about this topic is very similar of what I think about Christmas, because many people celebrate these holidays like it was sacred dates, and they even know which its true origin is or how many cultures are involved in it.
ResponderEliminarFor me Halloween and Christmas are just another excuses of big companies to get rich, but otherwise celebrate this holidays allows you to expend a good time whit your loved ones and pass a good time away of responsibilities and concerns.
A very interesting topic, but a different story than I imagined, well what I imagined was something more concerning as it celebrates "Halloween" today, which incidentally I think has lost the habit, and on the other side here in Venezuela is not a day for celebration, because we do not have the four seasons to be celebrating, I have also seen declines custom is now celebrated with parties full of young people with a costume and drinking something, at least that's I see here in this country, people expect this date to use the best costume and party, complete stupidity I guess, with respect to the present.
ResponderEliminarFinally, it is a celebration that comes from many years ago, full of many traditions, but here in Venezuela is only a day to party with disguise, and not even celebrate this day here, because we are a beautiful tropical country.
It is nice to know the real history of Halloween. I thought that this holiday was invented in a different way that it really was, but I think that this is a really nice history, and makes us think about a lot of things. We know that here, in our country, we do not have a the same seasons that other countries do, so there should not be celebrated here; anyway it is nice to have a holiday to celebrate, and this one is really great because of all the ghosts, and skulls, and witches, and all those scary things.
ResponderEliminarWell, i think that dependes in the intention with practice that celebration because if the people take this festivity like a normal celebration where their children wear custom its ok, but if the people uses this night like demoniac ritual, is bad omen and can have severus consequences. If this night was used centuries for praising to the devil, really I don't know, but I prefer to think that its false and that night is a celebration like others.
ResponderEliminarby angel yohan lozano
14 de junio de 2012 10:01
Well, when someone speaks of halloween, I think they are very wrong because Halloween comes from pagan cultures and Venezuela even Catholics celebrate it and I think that is out of place.
ResponderEliminarWe all know that the Catholic religion was removed pagan religions through Inquisition so that is a bit contradictory that they celebrate this day even after killing millions of people for thinking differently.
I celebrated my first Samhain this 3/11/2012 with pagan religion Wicca and besides being a completely healthy ritual was very cute and full of life, nothing compared to the idea of Halloween.
12-11-2012
Kiitos!
Good morning!!! Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses", carving Jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, New Zealand, and occasionally in parts of Australia.
ResponderEliminarIts origins go back to the Celts, and the celebration was exported to the United States by Irish immigrants especially in the nineteenth century, more or less towards 1846. The expansive force of the culture of U.S. Halloween has done that has been popularized in other countries. On the day of Halloween, in modern times is considered an American holiday.
written by yosmar espinoza.
The night of witches or night of the deceased it is known as a holiday originated by the Celts. Those who were celebrating a holiday that they were calling it A Samhain's festivity. The former Celts believed that the line that joins to this world with Another World was becoming closer with the arrival of the Samhain, allowing to the spirits (both benevolent and malevolent) to go on to slant. The familiar ancestors were invited and honored whereas the harmful spirits were remote. It is believed that the use of suits and masks owes to the need to banish to the malignant spirits. His intention was to adopt the appearance of a malignant spirit to avoid to be damaged. In Scotland the spirits were supplanted by young men dressed in white by masks or the face identical with black. Now the United Kingdom is celebrated principally in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and in not Anglo-Saxon countries as Mexico and another countries in the night of October 31.
ResponderEliminarThe Halloween is celebrated from children to the elders of the house is an opportunity for sharing and being with family and friends.
Written by Maria Rubio
B 2012 Idiomas extranjeros
It does thousands of years, the tradition comes from the former Celts, who were celebrating a holiday that they were calling it A Samhain's festivity, which it means to sow, it was one very important night for them because he remembers his dead men and the forbears, En the actuality Halloween knows himself as a celebration that has spread to other countries of the world. In these celebrations nowadays the persons disguise themselves and enjoy of the above mentioned holiday, it might say that it has supported force. It is celebrated by millions of families. Children dress up to go get sweets and adults go to parties with co-workers or friends also enjoy the evening of October 31.
ResponderEliminarWritten by Yolimar Molina
B 2012 Idiomas extranjeros
The traditions and importance of Halloween vary greatly among countries that observe it. In Scotland and Ireland, traditional Halloween customs include children dressing up in costume going "guising", holding parties, while other practices in Ireland include lighting bonfires, and having firework displays.Mass transatlantic immigration in the 19th century popularized Halloween in North America, and celebration in the United States and Canada has had a significant impact on how the event is observed in other nations. This larger North American influence, particularly in iconic and commercial elements, has extended to places such as South America, Australia,New Zealand,(most) continental Europe, Japan, and other parts of East Asia
ResponderEliminarWritten by Ivana Duque
Idiomas Extranjeros
Halloween was celebrated make over 3000 years by the Celts, a warlike people inhabiting areas in Ireland, England, Scotland and France. 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 tradition of 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 purifier and religious.
ResponderEliminarHalloween was celebrated make over 3000 years by the Celts, a warlike people inhabiting areas in Ireland, England, Scotland and France. 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 tradition of 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 purifier and religious
Written by Liliana Rivas
Idiomas Extranjeros
Halloween is a popular holiday in the USA. Celebrated on 31th October, Halloween arrive to USA in 1846 although it was disseminated in 1921. About the 80’s began to be celebrated worldwide.
ResponderEliminarHalloween goes back almost 2500 years. The tradition started in the Celtic culture, when the Celtic year finished in the end of summer. It was a day when the Celts believed the spirits could leave of the cemeteries so as to resuscitate, ask for food and curse them. If they did not do what spirits wanted, they were conjured. For this reason nowadays the people have the custom to go all the houses and ask candies. If they don’t get candies they play pranks. This is called “Trick or Treat”. Furthermore, the Celts got their houses dirty and decorated it with bones, skulls and other unpleasant things so that the dead pass by houses frightened. They disguised themselves to don’t be discovered for the spirits too. Likewise, these days, people decorate their houses with pumpkins and other sinister things and dress up for the occasion.
Halloween is a party based on fear, death, undead, black magic and monsters. Despite the time that has passed since the Celts celebrated this holiday, its customs have been maintained over time. Ghosts, witches, black cats, zombies, vampires and demons invade the streets in search of candy and fun.
I personally dislike this party, because it is based in a foreign culture that has nothing to do with our, I think that only benefits traders and just wasting our time and even money on it. most people do not know what I mentioned in the previous comment and only do so following "a fashion" that for me is rather absurd, but I don't blame just I don't follow. there are even people who made human sacrifices and many other unpleasant things this kind of cult of death and our innocence and ignorance on the issue we are not aware of this
ResponderEliminarHalloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31 every year in many countries, also known as Halloween or day of dead, on this date is very common to have parties, and they wear costumes. They are also often see movies or stories of terror looking for fun with other people. And this day is associated with the colors orange, black and sometimes purple.
ResponderEliminarIdiomas extranjeros.!!
Interesting to know what happens in other cultures. Often adopt customs from other places without even knowing they mean or where they come from.
ResponderEliminarwe Westerners just adopt these customs just for being a party and nothing more, not for what it means.
does not seem appropriate to adopt this type of behavior because as I said before, we do not know what it means.