Where does celebrating halloween orginate from?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

There are many superstitions and symbols connected with the festival of Halloween, celebrated on October 31. The name "Halloween" means "hallowed evening" since it takes place before All Saints' Day. Halloween traditions originate from many countries and have been modified by different cultures over time.

The Irish have a story about the origin of jack-o-lanterns. A man named Jack could not enter heaven because he was a miser, and he was unable to enter hell because he had played practical jokes on the devil. Therefore, he was left to walk the earth until Judgment Day with his lantern which was a hot coal placed in a hollowed-out turnip.

The use of witches, ghosts, and cats in Halloween celebrations originates with the Druids. The Druids were an order of priests in ancient Gaul and Britain who believed that ghosts, spirits, fairies, witches, and elves came out on Halloween to harm people. They thought that cats had once been human beings, but were changed as punishment for their evil deeds.

The Druids also took part in an autumn festival called "Samhain" (pronounced SAH-WIN) or "summers end". It was a celebration of the food which had been grown during the summer. The tradition of decorating with pumpkins, leaves, and cornstalks originates with this Druid festival.

In ancient days, celtic priestesses travelled about the countryside, chanting to frighten away the evil spirits which were thought to be free to roam the earth only once a year on Halloween night. Therefore, this is believed to be the origin of the Halloween parade.

Trick or treating had its origins in the practice of "souling", where people visited homes and offered prayers for the dead in return for gifts of food.

Answer 3

Halloween originated as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain with Irish, Scots, Welsh and other immigrants transporting versions of the tradition to North America in the 19th century.

The term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-eve, 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 seldom used today, it is still a well-accepted label. The festival is also known as Samhain or Oíche Shamhna to the Irish, Calan Gaeaf to the Welsh, Allantide to the Cornish & Hop-tu-Naa to the Manx. The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints Day to November 1. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit.

Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when spirits 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 4

From pagen rituals celebrating the end of harvest time and the beginning of winter. They linked winter with death (because so many people died in the winter) so they believed that the change of seasons was a time that spirits could communicate with the living world. It was not normally a huge feast because they would be saving the food for the winter. They would light fires at stragtegic places and have ceremonies. Try a wiki search for halloween, that helps too.

Answer 5

Halloween is generally believed to originate from the Celts about 2,000 years ago.

Suggested Usage: The custom of putting out carved vegetables on Halloween did originate with the Catholic Irish.

The traditional Halloween pumpkin head - or Jack o'Lantern - appears to originate from Irish folklore.

The spooky aspects of Halloween originate from an ancient Celtic festival called Samhain, according to the History Channel Web site.

The origins of “Trick or Treating” originate from the Christian ritual of “Souling“ where, on Halloween, beggars would go from door to door asking for Soul Cakes (flat, square currant bread).

Robert and Fiona examine how many of the most famous Halloween traditions actually originate from Scotland.

In many climates, particularly Ireland, from where most of our Halloween traditions originate, winters were cold and harsh, and the mortality rate was very high.

Many Halloween festivities originate from folklore and pagan traditions.

Answer 6

Halloween or "All Hallows Eve" celebrates the liminal time between summer and winter, when the spiritual and physical worlds collide... when magic is most potent!

Answer 7

The story goes that the dead were allowed to roam the earth one night a year....all hallows eve. Townspeople didn't want to be recognized by these spirits so they wore masks to confuse them. Somewhere along the way Hersheys, Nestle's, and Mars/M&M got in on the act and we have another excuse to pig out!

Answer 8

It's originally a pagan festival, which means it's evil.
It was called all hallows' eve, named so because it is the night before all saints' day. It was supposed to be the night when all pagan people and witches etc could get up to what they wanted before all saints' day banished the evil.

Answer 9

well in Lebanon we call her Barbara n she is a st she was running away from her father cause he wanted her to get married n during her way she had to change her look n stuff so no body can tell that she was Barbara n at the end she went to a church n served the lord to the rest of her life ull find different story in each county

Answer 10

From the British Isle, back when many of the people were Druidic, and it comes from the Druid holiday "Samhain".

Answer 11

it originates from england in the early days,comes from old pagan traditions,it is not american tradition.