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 Halloween  Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31st. In the 1900s the Irish brought over this tradition to North America. Halloween includes activities such as “trick or treating”, costume parties, haunted attractions, carving pumpkins, telling scary stories, and watching horror movies. Halloween is celebrated in many different countries including the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, and the United Kingdom at different times. Halloween is originally an ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain. The festival of Samhain is to celebrate the end of the harvest season. The ancient Gaels believed that October 31st was the day that the boundary between the living and the dead dissolved and the dead become dangerous and cause problems such as sickness or damaged crops. At the festival livestock and bones would be burned in a large bonfire and masks would be worn to mimic the evil spirits. A carved pumpkin lit by a candle is one of Halloweens most important symbols. On Halloween most modern people dress up as monsters or ghosts but other costumes could be based on television shows and not just horror. Article posted November 2, 2008 at 06:12 PM • comment (4) • Reads 207 • see all articles |
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