why is Halloween called Halloween?

Answer 1

The term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-evening, as it is the evening before "All Hallows' Day" (also known as "All Saints' Day"). 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. 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. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit.

Answer 2

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, fruit, and other treats. It is celebrated in parts of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Puerto Rico, and with increasing popularity in Australia, New Zealand, as well as the Philippines. 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. 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-evening, as it is the evening before "All Hallows' Day"[1] (also known as "All Saints' Day"). 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. 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. 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 3

The term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-evening, as it is the evening before "All Hallows' Day" (also known as "All Saints' Day"). 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. 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. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit.

Answer 4

Halloween, or "Holly of Wain" was originally attributed to the groundbreaking movement of Hollywood's elite to the cause of the Barbarian minority. Correctly pronounced as "How-loo-wun", the first people's to celebrate this feast were actors and actresses in the late 1960's, in celebrations commemorating the championing of new and liberating legislation on the United States front.

After the confrontational film 'Rush Hour 2' was released in 1954, which documented the escape of the Barbarians from the onslaught of the Attilic Empire, the cause of the Barbarians was taken to the United States Senate, in a bill sponsored by then libertarian candidate Louis P. McFrydoodle.

McFrydoodle, with co-sponser, Mayor Dwayne McCheesy of Baton Rouge, LA, garnered overwhealming support for Senate Bill No. 1031, and it passed uncontested and was ratified by the house and signed into law by then president William H. Taft.

The bill made many changes in public policy for the support of Barbarian causes, primarily that of the independence of Barbaric states from the South African warlord provinces.

In celebration of this new legislation, several key Hollywood actors and actresses, most notably William P. Gunnemore and Robert Downey Jr. set up a remembrance day, marking the very date and, coincidently, the number of the bill, October 31. They garnered costumes and shows of tricks and magic, and sweets for the children. "The Festival of the Waining" they first called it. Later, of course, it was renamed to give credit to its founders as "Hollywood Day of Waining", and further shortened to "Hollywain" or "Holloween".

Answer 5

IN arabic, halloween is called barbara ... and its a saints day , st . Barbra , this day is named after this saint. Where she disguized herself smthg like that , thats why all the masks and costumes in Halloween. But why in English Halloween , i duno .

Answer 6

Halloween is derived from Hallowe'en which inturn was a form of All Hallows Eve.

Answer 7

look up the history of halloween on google, then u will find out.