How much do you know about Halloween?

How much do you know about the spooky holiday of Halloween? As you probably know Halloween is celebrated on the 31st October, and the name Halloween descending from the old name Hallows Eve, the night of the dead. This is why children and adults alike dress as spooky characters like ghosts, goblins, vampires, monsters, witches and something that goes bump in the night.

It is also said that that this night dedicated to the dead, means that there are more spiritual energies, so that it a more receptive night to dead contact and contacting the living to the dead.

Halloween is an American celebration, often as so that it you know perhaps surprise it is Celtic pagan harvest festival Samhain in Ireland than that. Halloween was exported to America, not until the 19th century when many Irish folk emigrated.

The Celts celebrated their harvest festival because all the hard work of harvest of crops was over at the end of October. They saw to shorten Halloween rather than marking time, as they would in the day and night during the darkness and cold of the winter season.

Many Christians to prefer to celebrate of the following day, all Saints Day 1st November (also known as ' all hallows ' and 'All souls day') to avoid this is in conflict with their religious convictions." The word hallow means justifies in old English ', to get rid of sin". All is holy day as a day of kindness.

Halloween and the celebration have now been distributed to most of the Western world. However, the old Halloween importance has been lost and now the theme is fun and Spookiness. Halloween now is a festive holiday to dress up and have a nice time, perhaps to go ' trick or treatment of ' or to a spooky Halloween party. For some, halloween is a time to get yourself or maybe to scare BOO!

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