My blog this week is about Halloween.
We all know Halloween is meant to be the spooky ghost night of the year. It happens on 31st October. When children and some adults dress up as spooky or scary characters and houses are decorated in cob webs, spiders, skeletons and other ghost/creepy things. Most people who participate in Halloween all have pumpkins carved with a tealight inside to create scary faces or images. In the Evening children go out all dressed up and knock on neighbours doors saying trick or treat, to which most neighbours give the children a sweet or two. Other people have parties to celebrate its a very popular tradition and shops sell all sorts of things relating to Halloween from tablewear and homewear to costumes and makeup.
But where did this tradition start? (Obtained from www.history.com)
Sraddling the line between fall an winter, plenty and paucity, life and death. Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhaim, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts.
Evolving from the ancient Celtic holiday of Samhaim, modern Halloween has become less about literal ghosts and ghouls and more about costumes and candy. The celts used to day to mark the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter, and also believed that this transition between seasons was a bridge to the world of the dead. Over the millennia the holiday transitioned from a somber pagan ritual to a day of merriment, costumes, parades and sweet treats for children and adults.
