Who made up Halloween?

Answer 1

From the History Channel:
"Ancient Origins
Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).

The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. 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.
By A.D. 43, Romans had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain.
The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of "bobbing" for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.
By the 800s, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands. In the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV designated November 1 All Saints' Day, a time to honor saints and martyrs. It is widely believed today that the pope was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. The celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints' Day) and the night before it, the night of Samhain, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween. Even later, in A.D. 1000, the church would make November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honor the dead. It was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels, and devils. Together, the three celebrations, the eve of All Saints', All Saints', and All Souls', were called Hallowmas."

Answer 2

It's a Gaelic celebration saying goodbye to summer and preparing for winter. It is celebrated (close enough to) the autumn equinox. As the world apparently dies and is covered by snow, the Gaelic people would don masks and dance with the ghosts of their recently (in the last year) departed (dead). It's roots can be traced back to Ancient Briton, Ireland and Gaul.

Answer 3

who made up christmas???jesus wasn't born in december!!!the stark black cats are a refrential "hold-over" of the beautiful kittens that drew the chariot of the norse goddess freya!!the beautiful one herself became the "witch" to christianity's images!!woden of our wednesday's was usurped as a norse god when saint boniface chopped down a sacred oak whose branches held the sacrificed virgins and ritually strangulated victims of that god!!this is undoubtedly why we still put an angel at the top of our christmas trees!!!5to symbolize these dreadfully sacrificed persons!!the sacrifices of this period of the year and the ritual "orgies" ensured "new population",animal fecundity and strength for the northern tribes who were catered to because they were becoming increasingly relied upon to protect the roman empire from asiatic barbarians sweeping toward europe from the steppes of the east and they themselves being driven by hordes of others all on swift horses and with deadly composite bows..striking and penetrating all defenses protecting the remnants fo the eastern and western roman empire!!halloween was an effort to "co-opt" and usurp these pagan celebrations and the religious and chiefly organization of these northern tribes and supplant it with now-christianized roman customs which before this influence were somewhat even more barbaric in their earlier pre-empire manner of celebration and human and animal sacrifices!!

Answer 4

It was celebrated by the Pagans & adopted by the Christians.

Answer 5

the pagans

Answer 6

the christians

Answer 7

yo mama

Answer 8

evil people

Answer 9

I don't know!

Answer 10

satan