Halloween ?

Question

just out of curiosity, does anyone knows if the holiday for HALLOWEEN falls on other dates of the calendar other than 31OCT. I m asking as I understanding that many countries celebrate CHILIDREN DAY on different days, for eg, some on 1OCT, some on 4APR, etc

Answer 1

In Massachusetts, they celebrate two. One on John Kerry's birthday and another one on Teddy Kennedy's. Both are scary as hell.

Answer 2

Halloween is not Childrens day. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.

To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities.

During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_day

Halloween is an observance celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting candy or money. It is celebrated in much of the Western world, though most common in the United States, Puerto Rico, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada, and with increasing popularity in Australia and New Zealand. Halloween originated in Ireland as the pagan Celtic harvest festival, Samhain. Irish, Scots and other immigrants brought older versions of the tradition 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.

The term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening before "All Hallows Day".[1] In Ireland, the name was All Hallows Eve and this name is still used by some older people. Halloween was also sometimes called All Saints' Eve. The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European pagan traditions, until it was appropriated by Christian missionaries and given a Christian interpretation. In Mexico November 1st and 2nd are celebrated as the "Dia de Los Muertos" Day of the Dead. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit. In Australia it is sometimes referred to as "mischief night", by locals.

Halloween is sometimes associated with the occult. Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when the spiritual world can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent (e.g. Catalan mythology about witches).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

Answer 4

In the United States, it's always on the 31st of October.

Answer 5

I think Halloween is always on October 31.

My birthday is just 4 days after, it feels great!

Answer 6

Halloween is always the last day of October.

Answer 7

hi,
halloween is ALWAYS october 31, which is the last day in october.

Answer 8

Always Oct. 31st

Answer 9

same date every yr. my B-day. its important that people have something they can ridicule ypu about that you have no controll over.

I can honestly say that i think i have heard all the jokes about the subject!

Answer 10

nope