HISTORY AND ORIGIN OF HALLOWEEN

Origins

What we now know as Halloween or Halloween is celebrated make over 3000 years ago by the Celts, a warrior people who inhabited parts of Ireland, England, Scotland and France. Precisely on October 31, the Celts celebrated the end of the year with Samhain, a pagan festival. With European immigration to the United States, mainly the Irish Catholics in 1846, came the tradition of Halloween to America. When it comes to Halloween or Day of the Witches you think costumes, makeup, party, sweets and children, but tradition says that his celebration was not always festive and cheerful, and that the rites that were practiced during the night had a character and religious cleansing.

October 31 is a date associated with the dead , lost souls , witches and spells . These characteristics are due to its proximity to the day of the dead , which led the Catholic Church and commemorated on November 1 . As in other New Year festivals , on this date the dead were back among the living. The Celts were human and animal sacrifices in honor of the god Samhain , lord of death .

This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark , cold winter , time of year that was often associated with human death . The Celts believed that the border between the worlds of the living and the dead became uncertain on the night before the New Year . The night of Samhain celebrated October 31 , the date on which it was believed that the spirits of the dead returned to earth. To ward off these evil spirits , the Celts wore animal heads and skins while the Druid priests performed sacrifices with fire to celebrate the day in a more Christian.

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