When the first autumn leaf falls. When warm pumpkin spice fills the air. When the blissful breeze sends chills down your spine. When warm cozy knitted scarves snug around your neck. When Jason, Freddy, and Micheal find their way into your recommendations. You know it’s that time of year again!
\nThe time of year for gathering up with friends and getting candy dressed as your favorite character, or like one your mom made you dress up as. What is that time of year you may ask?
\nHalloween; of course!
\nHalloween is arguably the best holiday ever, but where exactly did it come from? Have people always put little pumpkins on their porch steps, or always dress in funny costumes to get candy? What exactly happened in order for this wonderful holiday to become so well known throughout the world? Was it something as arguably major as the birth of Christ? Or maybe death? There’s a lot more to this Spook Fest Holiday than we give credit for! Maybe, just maybe, if you keep reading there’s something you haven’t learned before.
\nHalloween has been around for a lot longer than you may think. See, lots of people think Halloween came from All Hallows Eve; but, believe it or not, it goes back further than that!
\nThe first ever records of “Halloween” are over two thousand five hundred years ago, celebrated by the bright group of Celtic peoples.
\nHowever they called these few days of celebration Samhain (SAH-win). Celts would celebrate Samhain from Oct. 31st to November 1st, during the fall equinox and winter solstice.
\nSamhain was considered the most important of the four fire festivals, due to when it took place.
\nThey would call this “the dark half of the year” where the people who celebrated believed that the barriers from the spiritual world to our world would be faulty. Since they believed the barriers to be down, they would leave offerings to outside Faeries or Sidhs.
\nDespite the fact they left offerings; Celts were afraid that faeries would kidnap them and drag them into the Otherworld. This is where costumes come into play!
\nThey would dress as animals and monsters to hide.
\nAfter centuries Pope Boniface \u2013 a devout catholic \u2013 was dead set on reforming the holiday. He made a new day on May 13th to give kudos to the Saints and Martyrs. However this plan was not to be the last change to Halloween!
\nYears later in the 9th century Pope Gregory moved the day back to the equinox and solstice, however, he changed the name. He declared the days, “All Saints Day” and “All Souls Day” would follow. These days are where the people of the church would go celebrate the life of their lost ones.
\nUnfortunately to the priests, these changes did not revoke all aspects of paganism.
\nSo these two holidays split completely. October 31st became All Hallows Eve or Halloween!
\nTrick or treating is said to come from old Irish practices leading up to Samhain. Irish people would dress up and go door to door, mumming themselves \u2013 or dressing up in costumes \u2013 and go door to door to sing songs to the dead, giving cakes and candy as payments.
\nAll Souls and Saints day are still around and celebrated in the Catholic Church, November 1st to November 2nd. Pretty amazing isn’t it?
\nNext time you go to trick or treat to get your favorite candies, remember the long and grueling history of this holiday. Where people would hide and thank spirits and monsters, hoping they would survive yet another year.
\nHappy HalloTeen, Everyone~~ make sure to always check under your bed before going to sleep tonight! Who knows, Maybe the Faeries still lurk, waiting to take their uncostumed victim with them to the depths of the Otherworld.<\/p>\n
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