why do people celebrate halloween?

Question

to me it looks like people ar worshiping the devil or something because i see kids in devil costumes so im not really sure what people are doing.
if someone knows pls answer thank you.

Answer 1

look up the history of it on wikipedia,
seriously, they explain it well.
But dont go nuts, meanings change over time, its really a way to have great fun! (and of course dress up, you can be whatever you want, some people want to be scary others want to be fairies, it varies!)

Answer 2

Halloween came from the Pagan holiday Samhain (pronounced "sow-when"). Samhain is the celebration of the new year. Like Ostara (now Easter) and Yule (now Christmas), the Christians "Christianized" the holiday. The Pope moved All Saints Day from the spring to coincide with Samhain, which was the end of the year. The name was changed to All Hallows Eve, until it's form now of Halloween.

Some Christians considered Christmas to be "too Pagan" and it wasn't always celebrated. Colonial Americans didn't celebrate it even! Halloween followed the same rout. However, Christmas is now celebrated by Christians, but Halloween isn't always. Many Christians see Halloween as still a Pagan holiday, and unfortunately they have many misconceptions about what Paganism is. Some Christians then draw the conclusion that to be Pagan is to be evil, and that Halloween is Pagan, therefore it's evil.

In summation, if Christians think that Halloween is evil because of it's Pagan roots, then should quite celebrating Christmas, which was once the Pagan holiday Yule, and Easter, which was once the Pagan holiday Ostara.

Pagans do not have a devil figure or evil god in their religion. Satan belongs to Christianity.

Most people celebrate the holiday by spending it with their friends as a secular holiday.

Answer 3

It has nothing to do with celebrating the devil. I use to dress up as a vampire or witch and yes I was a devil one year. But I also dressed up as a fairy or princess and even an angel. Halloween is fun to go out and dress up like something you never can do and get to use your imagination. Also it's fun to be able to get free candy. My son is nearly 3 and going to be a pirate. Is that related to sation I don't think so or how about a bumble bee or raggedy andy those were his costumes for the last two years. People seriously need to just let other people celebrate holidays the way they choose to. If you don't believe in halloween then just leave your light off at your house and you shouldn't receive any trick or treater's.

Answer 4

Halloween originates date back to the festival of Samhain. Celts lwhich l lived 2000 yeas ago in the northwesterrn part of Europe Including Ireland and the United Kingdom, celebrated the New Year
in November 1, a date associated with the human death. This marked the end of summer and the beginning of winter. In the night before, October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth causing trouble and damaging the crops. Celts believed that the presence ot these spirits made it easier for the Druids or Celtic priests to make predictions about the future. To commemorate the event Druids built large sacred bonfires where people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifice to the Celtic dieties. During the celebration Celts wore costumes as animal heads and skins. B y the 800s, Christianity had spread into Celtic lands. Pope Bonifacius IV designated November 1 Day of All Saints to honor saints and martyrs. The celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas from Middle English Allhalowmesse. The night before the night of Samhain began to be called All-hallows eve and eventually Halloween. It was celebrated with big bonfires, parades and costumes as saints, angels and devils.

Answer 5

So they can put on a costume and act stupid. Actually is was a pagan celebration for the end of harvest before Christianity arrived in Europe & British Ises. The Christian leaders didn't want to deprive the people of celebrating that time of year and replaced it with "All Saint's Day". I think the costumes are to chase the bad spirits away.

Answer 6

Really to get candy. I think the devil costumes means that the kid is bad. Every year we say my little sister needs to be a devil. But we never do it. The girl is bad.

Answer 7

It's a fun holiday filled with candy and the things we are normally afraid of, we become. We are set free from the rigors of life for a day to celebrate, decorate and entertain . Anything else is supossition. Or religion.

Answer 8

FIRST, Halloween has NOTHING to do with the Devil. It wasn't until the Dark Ages that "Christian" Kings said that to their people in order to make them obey their orders.

Halloween is based on Samhain. Read about them both here:

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

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

Get even MORE info here:

http://www.new-life.net/halowen1.htm...

http://www.history.com/minisite.do?conte...

http://wilstar.com/holidays/hallown.htm...

http://www.samhain.com/

http://www.mythinglinks.org/samhain.html...

http://www.celticspirit.org/samhain.htm...

I've provided links because there's not enough room here to fully explain it as I would like. You can find out even more by using your search engine(s) and typing in " Halloween " and " Samhain ".

Answer 9

because it's a holiday, and kids get free candies, and it doesn't mean that they're worshiping the devil, it's just a holiday spirit.

Answer 10

For the kids they get to dressup and get candy, for others it's Satan worship ( he didn't have anything to do with it) still others it's a religious holiday.