Halloween is a holiday a lot of people love it is the one time of year you can dress as whoever you want. There might be a lot more to this spooky holiday than you think. You ever sit back on those spooky night and wonder how Halloween became the holiday it is, or how they celebrated this holiday. Some people think this holiday is for satan and is not a good holiday but what was it really about? In this paper I'm going to be telling you how it all began, some interesting facts, and what they did during WWII. Halloween started in Ireland, but it wasn’t Halloween it was a Celtic Festival called Samhain. Samhain was celebrated more than two thousand years ago in County Meath. It was believed to be a time of transition to them the veil of this …show more content…
The legends of the jack-o’-lanterns is that Jack was actually a person. Jack used to be a night watchman who carried a lantern around to chase off unsavory night characters. Another legend of Jack is that he had trapped the devil in a pumpkin. After Jack caught the devil his demon like face showed through the pumpkin which gives us the looks of the jack-o’-lantern. After all that jack did people started to use jack-o’lanterns to keep the evil that walked the earth on Halloween away. Here is something really weird, but i think it is interesting. On Halloween if you don’t have a pumpkin to make a jack-o’-lantern just carve a turnip instead. It is tradition to carve a turnip instead of a pumpkin in Ireland and Scotland. The reason is they didn’t know about pumpkins, making good jack-o’lanterns, because pumpkins are native to North America. Immigrants realized in about mid 1800’s that pumpkins were much softer and way easier to carve than turnips. In the late 1800’s kids would dress up and go guising. Guising is what trick or treating was originally called. When these kids went guising they would get coins, fruits and cakes. Trick or treat didn’t come about till almost one hundred later in the United States. People in the Philippines on November second would celebrate All Souls Day. On this day Filipino children used to walk from house to house and sing hymns for all the souls lost that
Today I will be talking about the holiday we call Halloween. Halloween is where we all dress up in costumes and get candy from houses on the thirty first of October. Here are three things about halloween. First, I am going to be talking the history of halloween.
To better understand the history of the two holidays, we should look at where it all first began. An ancient Celtic festival of Samhain about 2,000 years ago was when Halloween was first created. This celebration took place on October 31st and it marked the end of summer, the harvest and the beginning of winter. During this time, winter resembled a cold and dark time which was often
Dia de los Muertos and Halloween can often be confused because they are celebrated within very close dates, but in reality they have distinct characteristics. Dia de los Muertos was originally introduced in Mexico with the Aztec Festival of the Dead, but the traditions have been tweaked over the years. Likewise, Halloween originated in Ireland, beginning with the Celtic Festival called “Samhain”. Now, the popular holiday, Day of the Dead, is celebrated from October 31st through November 2nd by visiting the graves of dead friends or family members. People who participate in Dia de los Muertos leave food, candles, incense, a poem, or a picture at the altar to honor the past lives of people they love.
Halloween On October 31 every year we celebrate a holiday known as Halloween. Celebrating consists of traditional activities such as: trick-or-treating, haunted houses, dressing up as your favorite character, carving jack-o-lanterns. There’s tons of fun stuff to do on Halloween, but there’s tons of history behind it as well. For starters, did you know that in Ohio, Massachusetts, and Iowa Trick-or-treating is referred to as Beggars Night?
You also go out to haunted attractions like corn mazes and hayrides. Also Halloween is on October 31st and Dia
In contradiction to Halloween, it is not a scary holiday and instead focuses on remembering those who have died with love and respect. On the first day (November 1) all the spirits of children who died come back and are remembered. The next day everyone else is celebrated. The living prepare their homes and towns for the return of the dead on October 31st. There are many other things traditionally done to honor the dead and enjoy the holiday.
In modern day Germany, The Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Festival typically displays more than 450,000 pumpkins each year, arranging them to create larger than life sculptures based on a particular theme. Ireland also experienced a cultural revolution. The Irish, prior to the 1800 's, used turnips as Jack O ' Lanterns. The Irish learned pumpkins were not only easier to carve out, but they were also a lot bigger.
Day of the dead is also celebrated with decorating graves with flowers and foods to welcome back their dead family and friends. Or they would set up a small alter in their homes with pictures of relatives who passed away, sweets, candles, and floral decorations. The bright colors symbolized the young souls that roamed around the cities and towns on Day of the Dead. Although Halloween does use skeletons as décor, pumpkins took the spotlight. Pumpkins are the physical symbol of Halloween.
“Finally!” Kate exclaimed. She just finished putting up all of her Halloween decorations. Halloween was her favorite holiday so she was thrilled.
Halloween is an holiday that is celebrated each years on October 31st. It started in old European traditions. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints; soon, All Saints Day incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain.
Attention Getter: I’m sure you have all heard the children’s rhyme that goes trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat. Thesis: Today I will be telling you about the holiday that is just around the corner, Halloween! I will be sharing with you some facts that will help you understand the origins of this holiday.
A comprehensive guide to the meaning and origins of Halloween An explanation for spooky festivities By Cazzy Lewchuk, Staff Writer Halloween is one of the largest and most celebrated holidays in North America. In fact, Halloween is the second-largest holiday in terms of celebration and money spent, right after Christmas—transacting business of an estimated $1 billion in Canada and another $8 billion in the U.S. As early as August, retailers fill their shelves with all sorts of chocolates and candies, pumpkins, costumes, and decorations to bring to life, the night of October 31.
My favorite holiday is Halloween, it almost became the year’s most popular festival. Many people have great enthusiasm to celebrating this festival. Every fall, people pick large orange pumpkins with curved grimaces and put a burning candle inside. They are called “jack-o’-lanterns”, which means “jack of the lantern,” but the most excited are the kids. The kids put on their costumes to look like curtain cartoon hero.
Nowadays, children prefer to sit in front the computer or television to play either PC games, online internet games, Nintendo, or PS2 that take the themes of ghosts, witches, black cats, vampire, zombies, mummies, skeletons, demons, pumpkin-men, vultures and crows. Halloween’s Beliefs and customs Image source On Halloween night, if unmarried women sit in a pitch-dark room gazing into a mirror, the face of their future husbands would appear in the mirror.
Halloween started at the Celtic Festival of Samhain in Ireland as was also known as All Saints’ Day. They used to start there New Year on November 1st, 43 A.D. so the day before that was the day they said the dead always came back. They also thought that druids could make more predictions about the future by celebrating the holiday in this day. This was in 205 A.D. so a lot of things have changed.