Halloween Came From Where?

Before HAPPY HALLOWEEN

According to Summer's End

Third SPOOKY

The fourth cold shoulder

Fifth Hallow's Eve

Sixth Paddles for Apples

Seventh TRICK

8th Or Treat

Ninth Jack O 'Lantern

10.The Great Pumpkin

Before HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Of all the holidays, which is the backbone of our popular Halloween one of the oldest year, thousands of years. Thanksgiving, July 4th, Easter and Christmas are also young in comparison.

Follow me and Itake you on a path that follows the course of centuries, the costume and candy night walk that we celebrate today.

According to Summer's End

Started as an ancient Celtic festival, Druid priests considered the time when the end of the year and a feast for the crop year 31. October was the first day of a three-day festival, called Samhain, which means "end of 'summer. " It marks the transition from season to season, the Sun of darkness,was also a celebration to honor the deaths. The Celts believed that the laws of space and time were suspended during the night, so the spiritual world of crossover and mix with the living world.

Third SPOOKY

According to legend, the disembodied spirits of all who were around the previous year ', would return that night in search of living bodies for the next year. Apparently it was their only hope of life after death. Aprotect themselves priests of the Celtic magic, charm and developed burning ritual sacrifices to appease wandering spirits that roamed the night.

The fourth cold shoulder

Of course no one wants to live quietly take possession, so the night of Oct. 31, people would put out the fire in the fireplaces and stoves to their homes cold and undesirable to the wandering spirits. After the ritual, they would dress in ghoulishparade in costume around the neighborhood causing Ruckus and destruction to deter the spirits of finding a warm body to inhabit.

Fifth Hallow's Eve

The word Halloween is a mixture. Samhain (pronounced sow-en, the sow rhymes with cow, the "s" is an important part to remember) was on November 1 with the Catholic feast of All Hallows Eve, "or" All Hallows Day announced "or" All Saints. "The old English word" saint "shouldsanctifies. It was the day to honor the Catholic saints. In the 7th Century AD, was adapted as "day" of the dead 'in honor of all the dead and not just the saints. Over time, these two parties to connect to a mega-celebration of the growing population in Europe. It abracadabra, sow-en and Hallows Eve merged creating Halloween. Ireland is sometimes known as Hallow Nahm and others spell called Halloween, further emphasizing the marriage of concepts andHolidays.

Sixth Paddles for Apples

Finally, the traditional Roman festival of November 1 in honor of Pomona was the Roman goddess of fruit and trees, in the Halloween punch. Bringing its own traits with him, the symbol of Pomona was an apple, which probably inspired the party activity bobbing for apples.

Seventh TRICK

Halloween came to America with early Irish and Scottish immigrants. The belief in spiritHad possession, the beginning and the act of dressing up like vampires, goblins, ghosts and witches was solemn as fun today killed.

However, it remained the anarchy of the early Celtic days. Favorite tricks of the time there were over farm knock, especially with someone inside fence and gates, posters, free the animals and the like.

8th Or Treat

The treatment is part of the trick-or-treat with home ninth century European customcalled "souling. go begging on" All Souls Day, early Christians from door to door "soul cakes" were small squares of bread with currants (yummy). You see, when it was believed that the souls of the dead remained in limbo on earth and that prayers would speed the passage of souls to heaven. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of the relatives of deceased donors.

Ninth Jack O 'Lantern

An IrishFolklore tells the story of a lazy trickster named Jack. Throughout his life he never had a single enemy, or a single friend, never done an honest job a day or a single selfless act for anyone. But despite its slow pace and constant state of drunkenness, was attempting to film the Devil his soul.

Halloween Jack was a number, and the devil came to make his gesture. Jake was, of course with a pint in the pub and asked the Devil for permission to finish his beer.The Devil agreed and Jack start a conversation. He asked: "If you really have no power, it could turn into anything, right? Even a shilling. The devil took it as challenge and became a silver coin. Jack grabbed the coin and scratched a cross-shaped scar on his face. The power of the cross, and as kryptonite for Superman, the Devil was powerless and held him prisoner.

Jack shared with Satan, he would free him if he wanted to give Jack anotherYear of life, who have the time to do penance. Having little choice, the devil in this way. A year passed, Jack being Jack came, but never out his bar stool to repent.

Again, it was Halloween, but Satan was a no show. Suddenly Jack knew why, Presto-change-o, Jack was dead, and stood at the Pearly Gates. It was always going to heaven. Ah, but before he received the go ahead for entrance to St. Peter. Check his records, St. Peter Jack thumbs down, boo-hoos forJack had not performed a single selfless act. Jack would go to hell.

However, Satan was not doing any of this either. He was still ticked cheated on. After another place to go, the Devil gave Jack a single burning ember in a hollowed turnip. With only this simple lantern light his way, rejected by heaven and hell, poor Jack was doomed to wander forever in darkness.

The Irish originally turnips as their "Jack's lanterns." But in America, pumpkins weremuch easier to come by than turnips. Pumpkins also pulled double duty as the symbol for the giant full moon after the harvest. This combines the man-in-the-moon and trickster Jack's face carved pumpkins pumpkin lanterns to form our own.

10th The Great Pumpkin

We have demons and goblins, the WHO and the boos, because Halloween is one of our most popular times of the year! Jokes and candy for all of you that this Hallow's Eve!
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