where did the celebration of halloween first originate??

Answer 1

Ancient Ireland. The people who lived in ancient Ireland, Britain, and parts of the European mainland were a culture called the Celts. Halloween was actually their New Year. They saw the year as beginning in Autumn and they saw their days as beginning at sun-down. Halloween was the day when people would honor and remember their dead relatives, but had to be careful because lonely ghosts with no living family to remember them would also be running about on that night. The Celts would carve faces into turnips and put candles into them to frighten harmful spirits. The people would have big, community bonfires and celebrations, but first had to make a feast and collect fire-wood and goodies together. So they sent out their kids to go door to door and get all the party stuff they could gathered together. A mockery of this eventually came about when some trickster young men would dress like girls and go door to door. They were known as 'Biddy's boys' and probably weren't entirely sober when they did it.

Answer 2

Halloween’s roots, although not found in the Bible, can be traced back to a pagan origin.
Pre-Christian Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all celebrated a festival for the dead. These ancients believed that on these occasions the spirits of the dead returned; therefore food was left for them and lamps were kept burning so they would not lose their way.
The many features of today’s Halloween and Day of the Dead celebrations can be traced directly back to paganism. The ancients associated this time of the year with the supernatural and with the thronging of dead spirits, so it was right in line with Catholic church policy to adopt this date for their All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day. The people were thus able to keep their pagan customs and beliefs and still celebrate what are called Christian festivals of the highest rank. But the varnish applied by Christendom to these pagan feasts is so thin that there is no questioning the fact that Halloween is rooted in paganism....
How about Christians today, how should they view Halloween? Christians will be motivated by Scriptural principle and not by human reasoning that may argue: “What harm can come from letting children attend a costume party?
Everyone else participates, and it is hard on the children when they are different.” It is not Scripturally wrong for children to have a costume party or play games such as bobbing for apples. However, doing so as a part of Halloween would be celebrating that pagan religious feast. This would be compromising Christian principles. One can be sure that Christ Jesus, who always stuck close to what the Bible said, would heed the divine commands: “You must not walk in the statutes of the nations.” “Do not learn the way of the nations at all.” (Lev. 20:23; Jer. 10:2)

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Answer 3

When Was Halloween First Celebrated

Answer 4

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 5

Halloween was first celebrated in Ireland and Scotland, and Halloween came to the United States from people from Ireland and Scotland who wanted to celebrate their holiday in their new homes.
Kids have always worn masks at Halloween, but costumes became cool in the 1950s and have been part of Halloween since!
instead of saying “Trick or Treat!” kids in Scotland say, “The sky is blue, the grass is green, may we have our Halloween?”
in Ireland, kids enjoy fireworks and bonfires. They also have salt sprinkled in their hair to scare off Halloween spirits.
The tradition of wearing spooky costumes, like ghosts, goblins, werewolves or monsters, started to scare away spirits that came out on Halloween.People started celebrating Halloween in the 1800s by telling legends about their homeland and reading poems.Halloween used to be called “Hallowe’en” from “All Hallows Eve.” Just like Christmas Eve is the night before Christmas, another holiday called All Hallows Day used to be celebrated the day after Halloween.

Answer 6

Halloween originated among the Celts in Ireland, Britain and France[1] as a pagan Celtic harvest festival.

Answer 7

Ireland

Answer 8

The 31st of October was thought to have been the day that the living meet the dead. so people dressed up as monsters to disguise them from the evil spirits or something like that.

Answer 9

Ireland is correct. You can read a short write-up on it on Wikipedia's website.

Answer 10

mexico with day of the dead