what is halloween?

Question

i might sound silly. but i am an indian and i do not know what it is? can you tell me and save me the trouble of looking it up in a dictionary?

Answer 1

Halloween is an american holiday that is traditional for handing out candy to little kids dressed in costumes (monsters, fairy's, famous people, just random objects) For older groups, its an excuse to scare little kids, and to be scared. To spend hours watching horror movies. Its supposed to be something to have changed Mexico's "El Dia De Los Muertos" into something that didn't celebrate the dead, and supposedly made the day more acceptable to american society. (i celebrate Samhain along with Halloween which is on the same day)

Answer 2

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Also called Hallowe'en, All Hallows Eve, All Saints' Eve, Samhain, Snap-Apple Night
Observed by Many Western nations, including the USA, Ireland, the United Kingdom especially Scotland, Canada, sometimes Australia, New Zealand and in the Saudi Aramco camps of Dhahran and Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia
Type Pagan, Religious, Cultural
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 is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets. It is celebrated in parts of the Western world, though most commonly in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Puerto Rico, and with increasing popularity in Australia and New Zealand. Halloween originated among the Celts in Ireland, Britain and France[1] as the Pagan Celtic harvest festival, Samhain. Irish, Scots, Calan Gaeaf in Welsh and other immigrants brought versions of the traditions 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"[2] (also known as "All Saints' Day"). In Ireland, the name was All Hallows' Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve), and though seldom used today, it is still a well-accepted label. The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Pope Gregory III moved the old Christian feast of All Saints Day to November 1 to give Halloween a Christian interpretation . Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit.

Halloween is often 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, Irish tales of the Sídhe).

Answer 3

Halloween , or all hallows eve is actually a pagan holiday to celebrate the winter solstace . It has become a childrens holiday were they are given candy and dress up in costumes . That is a small concession to the original pagan holiday . They did dress in odd costumes .

Answer 4

It is a much beloved, but much butchered celebration of a Christian observance day. "Halloween" is a slang word derived from the Christian "all HALLOWED saints EVEning. It is a feast to celebrate all the sainted ones, It was believed that all dead spirits could raise from their graves on the evening of the Feast of ALL SAINTS - thus the dressing in costumes of scary things (Ghosts and skeletons and such) that we see today as part of the observance. You appease the ghosts and goblins by giving them gifts to ward them away. This has now become giving candy to children in ghost outfits who come to your door on Halloween evening.

Answer 5

Halloween is when little kids dress up in a costume (anykind) And go door to door in neighborhoods for candy..






Its the funnest day ever!

Answer 6

it a time when peopl dress up and go house to house to get candy

Answer 7

people dress up as random things and all and u can go trick or treating, kids do it, asking for sweets and money. go to wikipedia, it'll describe it good 4 u


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

Answer 8

a day where you dress up in cotumes and get free candy
just a bout anywhere

Answer 9

you dress up as scary things and get candie.

Answer 10

it's a celtic harvest celebration.