Halloween originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, marking the end of the harvest season. Celts believed the night of October 31 was when the veil between the living and dead was thinnest and spirits of the deceased returned. To avoid being recognized by ghosts, people wore masks and costumes when leaving their homes at night. This tradition was brought to North America by Irish immigrants and evolved into the Halloween celebrations of today where children wear costumes and go trick-or-treating door-to-door asking for candy.

1. what is the origin of halloween
Halloween is a festival of pagan origin that takes place on the night of October 31, the eve of
All Saints' Day, and that has its roots in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain
(pronounced "sow-in"), which means " end of summer "and was held at the end of the
harvest season in Ireland to start the" Celtic New Year ", coinciding with the autumn
solstice.
During that night it was believed that the spirits of the deceased walked among the living,
and held sacred feasts and rites that included communication with the dead. In addition, it
was customary to place a lit candle in the windows so that the dead would "find their way".

2. what is Halloween
• Halloween is the name given in the countries of the American
continent to a pagan festival inherited by European immigrants in
the 19th century. This celebration, reprobate given by many
cultures, Halloween centers its celebrations between October 31
and November 2, dates in which they celebrate two parties of
greater antiquity and more ethnic importance for its inhabitants, as
is the "Samhain" a "Celtic" celebration performed in the past with
great form in Europe in which it was praised and paid tribute to
their ancestors in pagan rituals and reprobated by the Catholic
Church, and the Day of the Dead, or Day of the Dead Saints, feast in
which, tribute is paid to those who are no longer present, this
celebration has its strong focus of belief in Central American
countries and more in Mexico, in this country, families have the
habit of "taking out for a walk" the bodies of deceased relatives in
the streets, wrapped in flowers and in a procession, accompanied
by songs and traditional games with large masks and fireworks.

3. what day the Halloween is celebrated
and why
• Tonight the streets will be flooded with terrifying disguises and
scares. Halloween is an American holiday that every year gains
more notoriety in our country. The children make their own themed
costumes at school and even celebrate a great party. But, it is not
just a celebration aimed at children; Young people and adults can
also enjoy tonight in nightclubs and bars that set their premises
with the most terrifying themes. But what does this party really
mean and why is it celebrated?
• The ancient Celts believed that on the night of October 31, the
souls of the dead returned to our world. In order not to be attacked
by the souls of the dead, people dressed up in masks and
horrendous clothes. In addition, they were offered jellybeans to
these souls with the aim of entertaining and pleasing them so that
they would not unleash their fury against the living. In this way,
began this tradition that the Romans adopted when they invaded
the Celtic people.

4. What is the passage from the day of
the dead to the day of the living
This tradition passed from the Celts to the Irish. This tradition passed
to the West with a religious sense. Thus, November 1 also became the
day in which Christianity pays tribute to deceased relatives.
The Irish were in charge of moving this terrifying celebration to North
America during the 'Great Famine'. The first massive parade on the
occasion of Halloween was held in Mimesota in 1921. It was then that
this festival reached its maximum splendor so far.
Since the 1920s, this celebration has had some variations, although it
still retains its main essence: "The passage from the day of the living to
the day of the dead". This day in which the dead returned to the world
of the living has been, for many years, the main theme of numerous
films and television series. In fact, the cinema took this party to its
final internationalization with the premiere of the horror film
'Halloween Night' by John Carpenter.

5. what is the origin of halloween
costumes
• According to the story, the Celts, driving this
celebration, used a mask to escape the ghosts. They
followed this tradition, motivated by fear of spirits and
darkness.
• The custom of dressing up for Halloween has Celtic,
rather Anglo-Saxon roots. The winter nights of
hundreds of years ago posed a threat to people. His
darkness caused him much fear because they believed
that on the night of All Saints, the dead came alive and
became ghosts, mummies, witches, etc. People also
thought that they would be found in the streets if they
left their homes.

6. what is the origin of halloween
costumes
• As not everyone could afford to be closed at home all night, those who left believed that by
disguising themselves they would not be recognized by ghosts. And what did they do? Because he
wore masks, hoods, with the purpose of confusing the ghosts in their search for spirits.
• The first celebrations in the United States included public holidays in which neighbors shared
stories of death and ghosts, guessed luck, danced and sang. In the middle of the 19th century the
annual festivities of autumn were common but Halloween was not yet celebrated throughout the
country. This began to generalize with the arrival of the new Irish immigrants in the second half of
the century.
• At that time, the Americans began to disguise themselves and go house to house asking for food or
money, a practice that later became what we know today as trick or treating. The same thing that
will happen on the night of October 31, millions of children all over the world.
• Children costumes for Halloween
• Happily, not everything is fear and terror on Halloween night. With the time and because the
children also happened to add in this celebration, Halloween costumes suffered some alterations.
There are still the costumes of witches, ghosts, Frankenstein, mummies, headless man, etc, but to
those were added disguises of animals, fairies, and other good characters. After all, what it's about
is letting children's imagination fly through the disguises.

7. because children ask for sweets on
halloween
• It is proven that the famous "give me my calaverita" or "trick or treat" is not a
whim, the custom of children asking for candy on Halloween goes back to Ireland
for more than 3000 years.
• It turns out to be an ancient Celtic rite that was celebrated every October 31
because they considered that date was magical because (according to their beliefs)
opened the dimension that separates the living from the dead, besides being
Samhain, the celebration that it represents the end of the harvest and the official
start of winter.
• The Celts left sweets and food outside their homes so as not to "infuriate" the
spirits that could be loose that day and wore masks of diabolic shapes with figures
and decorations to "scare" them and drive them away.
• That is why children have to disguise themselves to go through the houses asking
for sweets under the slogan "trick or treat" (literally translated as "trick or treat"
but better known as "sweet or mischief"), the mischief refers to the "evil" of the
spirits.
• The Irish immigrants who fled to North America during the period of great famine,
transmitted this tradition and several countries have been tropicalizing. In Mexico
this tradition lasts a whole weekend (the one that is closest to the day of the
dead).

8. who were the Celts
• The common denominator of Celtic peoples is language.
The so-called Celtic languages, are those that derive from
the protecéltico language that, according to expert linguists
and historians, was the first of the Indo-European
languages to expand territorially.
• The six main Celtic languages of which linguistic influences
remain today are: Breton, Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh,
Irish and Manx. Similarly, it is estimated that there may
have been many other Celtic languages that are now
completely extinct.
• Another characteristic shared by the different Celtic
peoples is that they were all warrior peoples. Therefore,
despite sharing cultural traits, many times the Celtic
peoples faced each other.

9. what does pumpkin mean on
halloween
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• Although a Halloween party is not conceived without this vegetable, the
pumpkin is not a symbol of the primitive Samhain or Halloween
celebrated by the Celtic peoples of Europe. Irish emigrants discovered the
pumpkin when arriving as settlers in America (see "Halloween Story"). To
know the origin of this symbolic fruit of the night of witches and its use as
a terrifying candle, you have to know the legend of Jack or Jack-o-lantern.
We also show you different templates to cut pumpkins (pumpkin carving
patterns), so you will impeccably and realistically set the Halloween party
at home, what in American homes called "Halloween decorates". Today,
on Halloween night, American children dress up and go from house to
house with a candle inserted in a pumpkin previously emptied. When they
open the doors of the houses they shout "trick or treat" (trick or treat), to
give to understand that they will spend a joke to those who do not give
them a kind of bonus, candy or money.

10. Happy halloween