Loading ...What You Might Not Know About Halloween
by Katie Cheung
Halloween – the festival that all children love! A time when kids have the chance to get free candies that are offered by their neighbors, namely “Trick or Treat.” It’s a well-known custom that is favored by every single child.
Halloween is certainly not a child’s privilege but also for adults to reminisce the good old days by gathering candies that were once their favorite when they were young. To know about Halloween’s history, we have to go far beyond our parents’ generation because the origin dates back to centuries ago, back into the days of pagan rituals; even before they have been made a part of the Church.
There has been various versions concerning the origin of its name, but no one can really be sure that their stories are right. A few suggested that it came from the Celtics who were celebrating a good harvest. What gave this festival the spookiness has to do with a myth. On this night, the dead would rise from their death and cast spells on the crops and the living people. This explains why people carve frightening profiles on pumpkins and dressed as terrifying spirits for Halloween nowadays.
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It’s Halloween Again
Halloween has a long history dating back some 2000 years to the Celtic days of old. The Celts celebrated their New Year on November 1st and it was a day of celebrating the end of the summer harvest and the beginning of the long cold winter. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. They build big bonfires and burned animals in a sacrificial ceremony as they dressed up in ghouly costumes. When the Celtic people disappeared the Christian leaders replaced the holiday with All Saints day to honor saints and martyrs. They still celebrated with bonfires and costumes. As time passed it became the kids holiday we know today but most kids don’t know how it got started. All they know is they get candy. You can read more about Halloween at history.com and get some more details but that’s bout it.
http://www.history.com/content/halloween/real-story-of-halloween
Or if you go looking for the Atco Ghost (which seems to be a part of the holiday around here) maybe you can ask him what he knows about the story.
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Happy Halloween!
It’s that time of year and Fall is here. So is Halloween. So have a good time on this Halloween night and stay clear of the Atco Ghost!!
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