1.12.08

Origins of helloween (victor)


I’m gonna speak about the origin of Halloween.

Halloween is a party that is celebrated on October 31. In that holidays, people tend to do activities such as trick-or-treatening, costume parties, reading scary stories…

This was, in fact, a celtic festival called Samhain, known as the “Celtic new year”. Celtic people believed that on October 31, the boundary between the living and dead dissolved, so the dead ones became dangerous for the living ones causing illness or sickness.

When the Roman Empire arrived to celtic places such as the modern England, they incorporated symbology that was part of their Pomona parties, such as apples. The Catholic Church fixed the All Saints’ Day on November 1 to end with the pagan tradition, but this party has survived since now.

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