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Halloween is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets. It is celebrated in parts of the Western world, though most commonly in the United States , Canada , the UK , Ireland , Puerto Rico, with increasing popularity in Australia and New Zealand . Halloween originated among the Celts in Ireland, Britain and France as the Pagan Celtic harvest festival. The immigrants took versions of the traditions to North America in the 19th century. Most other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late 20th century.
Halloween is often associated with the occult. Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is the times of the year when the spiritual world can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent. |
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Typical Halloween food is popcorn, pumpkin pie, loquorice and candided apples. |
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| The imagery surrounding Hallowe'en involves death, magic, or mythical monsters. Commonly-associated Hallowe'en characters include ghosts, aliens, witches, bats, owls, crows, vultures, haunted houses, pumpkinmen, black cats, spiders, zombies, mummies, skeletons and demons. Homes are often decorated with these symbols around Hallowe'en |
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| There are several games traditionally associated with Halloween parties. The most common is dooking or bobbing for apples , in which apples float in a tub or a large basin of water ; the participants must use their teeth to remove an apple from the basin. A variant involves kneeling on a chair, holding a fork between the teeth and trying to drop the fork into an apple. Another common game involves hanging up treacle or syrup -coated scones by strings; these must be eaten without using hands while they remain attached to the string, an activity which inevitably leads to a very sticky face. |
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Also called: Hallowe'en, All Hallows Eve, All Saints' Eve, Samhain, Snap-Apple Night.
Orange and black became Halloween colors because of orange is associated with harvests and black is associated with death. |
| There are many variations on the history of Halloween, but it's generally believed that Halloween dates back to 700 B.C. to the Celts, a rural society in northern England , Ireland and Scotland . On November 1, the first day of their new year, the Celts celebrated a festival called Samhain. |
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| Chosen to signify the end of the harvest season and the onset of winter, Samhain was also thought to be a day of the dead. Because it was the end of one year and the start of another, the Celts believed that past and present were closely linked, allowing ancestral spirits to join them. |
| On the eve of Samhain, October 31, the Celts dressed in costume, lit bonfires, and offered food and drink to masked revelers. Many say the costumes and fires were used to drive away the spirits, and the food given to placate the dead. |
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October 31 came to be called Halloween when the Christians proclaimed November 1 as All Hallow Day. Unable to stop the pagan ritual of Samhain, the Christians made it a day to celebrate saints who had no day of their own. The night before, or All Hallow Eve, was later shortened to Halloween. |
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| Halloween is the 8th largest card-sending occasion. There are over 28 million Halloween cards sent each year! |
Happy Halloween! |
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