Have you heard of Halloween?

Halloween, also known as Hallowe’en, All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve, is a holiday celebrated worldwide on October 31, the night before the Western Christian holiday of All Hallows’ Day. Hallowe’en is an abbreviation of the phrase “All Hallows’ evening.” It marks the start of All hallow tide, the season of the liturgical year when the dead are remembered, including saints, martyrs, and all the departed.

According to one idea, many Halloween customs were influenced by Celtic harvest celebrations, especially the Gaelic holiday Samhain, which is thought to have pangamic origins. Halloween has been celebrated for generations in Ireland and Scotland. Irish and Scottish immigrants introduced many of these traditions to North America in the 19th century, and by the late 20th and early 21stcenturies.

Halloween Activities

Trick-or-treating, dressing up for Halloween parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns, starting bonfires, playing apple bobbing, playing divination games, telling scary stories, and watching horror or Halloween-themed movies are all common Halloween activities.

For kids, trick-or-treating is a traditional Halloween celebration. Children dressed in costumes visit houses asking for presents like candy or occasionally cash and asking, “Trick or treat?” If no treat is delivered, the word “trick” indicates a “threat” to cause harm to the homeowners or their property. he practice is said to have roots in the medieval practice of mumming, which is closely related to soling.

Halloween Party

Halloween Party is a game where you must collect as many pumpkins as possible. You can also try to get the most points by collecting the most pumpkins and making them disappear in one shot. The more pumpkins you have, the higher your score will be. You just need to tap on screen to move left or right. If you want to shoot, press and hold downing screen for 2 seconds until it turns red. Then release it when your pumpkin is ready to be shot at! That’s all there is too it!

Halloween costumes have historically been fashioned after characters like devils, vampires, ghosts, and skeletons. Overtime, the costume options grew to include well-known fictional characters, famous people, and archetypal figures like ninjas and princesses. Masks are sold in a Halloween store in Derry, Northern Ireland. By the late 19th century, Halloween costumes and “guising” were very common in Scotland and Ireland.

Food for Halloween

There are many vegetarian delicacies linked with All Hallows’ Eve because many Western Christian faiths support vegetarianism on this day. Candy apples, also known as toffee apples outside of North America, caramel apples, and taffy apples are popular Halloween treats made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts. Candy apples were once frequently given to trick-or-treaters, but the custom quickly disappeared after stories went widely that some people were hiding razor blades and pins in the apples in the United States. One tradition that is still practiced today in Ireland is creating (or, more frequently, buying) a barmbrack, a light fruitcake into which charms like a simple ring, a penny, and other objects are placed before baking.

Why do we celebrate Halloween festival?

Halloween traditions of today are considered to have been influenced by folklore and beliefs from Celtic-speaking nations, some of which are claimed to have a pagan origin. Folklorist Jack Santino claims that “there existed a tense truce between the habits and beliefs linked with Christianity and those associated with faiths that were Irish before Christianity arrived” in Ireland. Samhain, a Gaelic holiday, is frequently cited as the inspiration for Halloween traditions.

You can read the books below for learning more about Halloween Festival with Visual Paradigm Online.

It’s Pumpkin Day Book

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More About Jack-o’-lantern – Common Decorations During Halloween

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Traditional Games In Halloween

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