Halloween Party

What is Halloween and why the people celebrate ?

• Halloween is a christian festival. It is celebrating because on 1 November their is one more christian festival which is“ALL SAINTS DAY”. On this day Christian people do puja of those people who is dead.

• Christian people also called all Hallows day. And a night before saints day is called halloween. Hallow =saints, een = evening.

• On this day they think that all the doors are open of heaven.

FATS OF HALLOWEEN

• Symbol of Halloween is pumpkin because pumpkin is called “jack o lanterns” rituals came form iland.

• Owl is also symbol of Halloween. In Europe medieval period people they think owl are witch. When they hear owl voice near them they think anyone gonna die soon.

• People say on night of Halloween the spider seen you it means the lover of yours see you.

• Halloween has famous dialog “tricks or treat”.

• Halloween has most famous colour is orange and black, orange is shows the harvesting, and black shown as dark or death.

• Carving pumpkins, trick-or-treating, and wearing scary costumes are some of the time-honoured traditions of Halloween. Yet, the Halloween holiday has its roots in the ancient  Celtic festival of Samhain.  A pagan religious celebration to welcome the harvest at the end of summer, 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 honour saints. Soon after,all saint days came to incorporate some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before All Saints Day was known as All Hallows Eve, and later, Halloween. Here is a look at the origins of some of the classic Halloween traditions we know today.

Carving Jack-o’-Lanterns

• The tradition of carving Jack-o’ -Lanterns originated in Ireland using turnips instead of pumpkins. It is allegedly based on a legend about a man named Stingy Jack who repeatedly trapped the Devil and only let him go on the condition that Jack would never go to Hell. But when Jack died, he learned that Heaven did not want his soul either, so he was forced to wander the Earth as a ghost for eternity. The Devil gave Jack a burning lump of coal in a carved-out turnip to light his way. Locals eventually began carving scary faces into their own turnips to frighten away evil spirits.

Seeing Ghosts

• The festival of Samhain marked the transition to the new year at the end of the harvest and beginning of the winter. Celtic people believed that during the festival, spirits walked the Earth. Later on, Christian missionaries introduced all souls day on November 2, which perpetuated the idea of the living coming into contact with the dead around the same time of year.

Wearing Scary Costumes

• In order to avoid being terrorised by all the evil spirits walking the Earth during Samhain, the Celts donned disguises so that they would not be mistaken for spirits themselves and be left alone.

Trick-or-Treating

1. There is much debate around the origins of trick-or-treating, but generally there are three theories. The first theory suggests that during Samhain, Celtic people would leave food out to appease the spirits traveling the Earth at night.  Over time, people began to dress as these unearthly beings in exchange for similar offerings of food and drink.
2. The second theory speculates that the candy boon stems from the Scottish practice of guising, which is a secular version of “souling.” During the Middle Ages, generally children and poor adults would collect food and money from local homes in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls’ Day. Guisers dropped the prayers in favor of non-religious practices with the inclusion of songs, jokes, and other “tricks.”
3. A third theory argues that modern American trick-or-treating stems from “belsnickeling,” a German-American Christmas tradition where children would dress in costume and then call on their neighbours to see if the adults could Guess the identities of the disguised. In one version of the practice, the children were rewarded with food or other treats if no one could identify them.

Bats

• Bats were likely present at the earliest porto-halloween celebrations, not just symbolically but literally. As part of Samhain, Celts lit large bonfires, which attracted insects, which in turn, attracted bats. Soon spotting bats became connected with the festival. Medieval folklore expanded upon the eeriness of bats with a number of superstitions built around the belief that bats were harbingers of death. 

Lighting Candles and Bonfires

• For much of the early history of Halloween, towing bonfire were used to light the way for souls seeking the afterlife. These days, lighting candles have generally replaced the large traditional blazes.

Pranking

• Playing pranks often varies by region, but the pre-Halloween tradition known as “ Devil’s night “, is credited to a different origin depending on the source. Some say that pranks started as part of May Day celebrations. But Samhain, and eventually All Souls Day, also included good-natured mischief. When Irish and Scottish immigrants came to America, they brought with them the tradition of celebrating Mischief Night as part of Halloween.

Black and Orange

• The traditional Halloween colours of black and orange also traces back to the Celtic festival of Samhain. For the Celts, black represented the “death” of summer while the orange symbolised the autumn harvest season.

 

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