is halloween the devilz b-day really????and is it bad to go trick or treating 4 halloween
2006-09-26 14:31:39 · 19 answers · asked by mimi 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
No Halloween is NOT the devil's birthday. It started as the "New Year's Eve" of the Celtic calender. The night when the spiritual world and the physical world are the closest.
Trick or treating is merely an extention of the tradition of people dressing up as spirits and collecting the tributes people put out to keep the bad spirits at bay for another year.
2006-09-26 14:37:59 · answer #1 · answered by roamin70 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No, it is not the devils birthday. The holiday dates back before the time of christ as the end of the celtic calendar year. It was a harvest festival. It had nothing to do with the devil at all.
No it is not bad to go trick or treating. It's a tradition that has seen it's fair share of bad press but most of the things you hear about are urban legends. If you do get to go out have fun and be safe.
2006-09-26 14:44:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hallowe'en means 'All Hallows Eve,' or the Eve of All Saints Day. So the name has nothing to do with the devil. It coincides with pagan holidays, just as many christian holidays do. There has been a lot of superstitious belief that the spirits of the dead wander around on that night, and a lot of present day disguises and trick or treating hasa its basis in that. That is why some Christians prefer not to participate. It appears that modern wiccan (witchcraft) movement claims the holiday as their own, which causes more confusion. So, basically, Hallowe'en is what you make of it I guess.
From a Christian standpoint, I would say we should respect those who choose not to participate for the above reason, and we should respect those who feel they can participate because they don't see anything more than fun and games in it. (My reasoning based on Romans chapter 14, which does not talk about Hallowe'en, but does talk about attitudes of respect concerning different convictions).
2006-09-26 16:43:11 · answer #3 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is fine to go trick-or-treating. how can anyone possibly argue with getting free candy for expressing your creative side? Also the business about it being the devils birthday just sounds like some televangelist trying to turn what i consider to be the most fun holiday of the year into something evil. Consider also the fact that Christmas is really a Christian adaptation of a pagan orgy to celebrate the winter solstice. Dont let someones radical veiws of religion spoil the American dream and that is the right to free candy.
2006-09-26 14:54:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Halloween comes from the Celtic New Year Celebration called Samhain, as a day when spirits were free to roam among the living. It was a pagan holiday long before Christians came around, and there was no devil in Celtic mythology (unless you consider Oliver Cromwell :P ). For that matter, Christmas started out as a pagan holiday as well!
2006-09-27 15:44:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It marks "All Hollows (Holies) Eve", slurred into Halloween. On November 1st, all the previous generations will come forth to help the living (All Saints' Day). The night before (Oct.31), mischievous spirits would be expected to cause problems for the living. The living needed to wear masks to hide their identity and be sure to be nice to all of the other "spirits" by giving treats to win their favor.
It is nothing more than a celebration of life, and it's mysteries. Wear a costume, eat your candy, and have a good time.
2006-09-26 14:46:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Halloween
Halloween
A jack-o'-lantern
Also called All Hallows Eve, All Saints' Eve
Observed by Many Western nations, including the USA, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada, sometimes Australia, New Zealand and in the Saudi Aramco camps of Dhahran and Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia
Type Religious, Cultural, Scary
Significance There are many sources of the significance of Halloween
Date October 31
Celebrations Trick-or-treating, Bobbing for apples, Costume parties, Carving jack-o'-lanterns
Halloween (IPA pronunciation: [hælə'win], [hælo'win]) is an observance celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting candy. It is celebrated in much of the Western world, though most common in the United States, Puerto Rico, Republic of 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] (also known as "All Saints' Day"). In Ireland, the name was All Hallows Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve), and though seldomly used today, it is still a well accepted label. 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 "Día 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).
2006-09-26 14:43:05 · answer #7 · answered by summer 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Halloween was created so kids could dress up for fun and bum door to door for candy and moms could have a few hrs break while the oldest kid passed out the candy and dressed up to scare the little ones because he was to old to go out. (kept him from toilet papering your neighbors also in which he would rather do than get candy at that age) and no the devil really wasn't suppose to be in it, except in dress. Now a days even that isn't safe is it? Funny how the churches have jumped in on the holiday for the kids to make it safe isn't it? So i figure it could have been the devil that made them do it!!! Have a good one:-)
2006-09-26 14:38:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it's not the devils birthday. Of course it's not bad to go trick or treating. I'm excited because it will be my daughter's first time ever to go trick or treating. Happy halloween!! Boo!!
2006-09-30 12:33:12 · answer #9 · answered by jp_457 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No its Hallowed Eve, the evening before All Saints day, nothing to do with the devil, and it is ok to dress up and go trick or treating. Jehovas Witnesses will not do it but then they don't celebrate Christmas either,
2006-09-26 14:38:57 · answer #10 · answered by Mightymo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋