2006-08-19 08:49:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
It dates back 2000 years ago with the Celtic celebration of the dead. A festival would be held on November 1, the first day of the Celtic New Year, honoring Samhain, the Lord of the Dead. The Celtics believed that the souls of the dead returned the evening before November 1. The celebration included burning sacrifices and costumes. These early events began as both a celebration of the harvest and of the honoring of dead ancestors. I hope this helps.
2006-08-19 09:12:56 · answer #1 · answered by organic gardener 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are a variety of holidays that Egyptian, Roman, Celtic, Nordic, Christian, and other cultures all blended together over time to create Halloween, kinda like Christmas. The celtic influence tends to stand out the most, even through it's currently commercialized, degenerated form.
2006-08-20 07:21:45 · answer #2 · answered by aethermanas 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Halloween is actually like Christmas Eve. The night before a Christian holy day.
It is the eve of All Saint's Day or All Hallows Eve or Halloween.
But just like Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday), Halloween has taken on a life of its own.
With love in Christ.
2006-08-20 01:43:44 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The 'Druids" started Halloween
2006-08-21 00:10:56 · answer #4 · answered by Tinkerbelle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Old pagan harvest holiday
New- capitalistic plan to SELL more candy! And vent after back to school...
2006-08-19 17:13:08 · answer #5 · answered by uncledad 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It' the night before "All Saints Hollow" (an outdated Catholic holiday).
2006-08-19 15:56:39 · answer #6 · answered by Jedi Baptist 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From the pagan European Holiday "All Saints Hollow." They gave food and dressed up to welcome dead spirits.
2006-08-21 22:10:50 · answer #7 · answered by loretta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anyone who participates in this ritual should know that its pagan roots is enough to know its not acceptable in the eyes of the lord
2006-08-20 00:45:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋