Monday 27 October 2014

Halloween Part A

Halloween is celebrated each October 31st but how did it get started? That is why i'm going to tell you.
Halloween had many names such as Hallowe'en, Allhalloween, All Hallow's Eve, and All Saints' Eve.
About 2000 years ago there were a group called "Celts", the Celts celebrated the 31st of October as new years eve with a festival called "Samhain", named after their dark lord well the "Lord of Darkness."In order to celebrate "Samhain" the Druids would build sacred bonfires around so the celts would burn crops and animals for Sacrifice for their ancient gods, during the "Samhain" the celts would dress up in costumes made of animal heads and skin. By 800 AD the influence of Christianity spread through the Celtic lands, November 1st was All Saints' Day then later All-Hallows or Allhallowmas, then the night of Samhain was eventually called All-Hallows Eve and eventually Halloween. As of today we still call it Halloween and we celebrate it by going to every house we see and knock on the door and say "treak-or-treat" and get candy, we still dress up in costumes just not from animal heads, and skins but our favourite characters from Halloween, we also decorate our houses to make it creepy to walk up to.



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