2006-10-31 06:08:36 · 7 answers · asked by martin h 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
We celebrate because it's fun. It also happens to be a pagan holiday. They don't have too much in common, really. In North America it seems to be a lot about carved pumpkins and candy and bonfires and fireworks. It's a children's celebration, though it appeals to the child in all of us.
2006-10-31 06:18:20 · answer #1 · answered by lottyjoy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because it would be silly to celebrate it on the 30th? ::shrugs::
I'm not sure what the question is trying to get at. There's (at least) *two* different holidays on October 31st - there's the Gaelic holiday of Samhain (celebrated by several stripes of Pagans), and the Catholic holiday of All Hallow's Eve (Halloween). There is a connection between the two - but what most folks celebrate today is a secular version of the second, with some secular folk practices that, while ultimately deriving from the first, went through a millenium of Irish Catholocism first.
2006-11-03 15:54:26 · answer #2 · answered by ArcadianStormcrow 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Halloween is actually derrived from the pagan holiday of Samhain, which marks the end of the harvest and the end of the year. Many holidays fall around this time of year: All Saints Day, Dia de los Muertos, Halloween, Samhain, Ramadan (which just ended) etc.
Christmastime is the same way with Yule, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, etc. all falling within the same time period.
Almost all holidays are based on ancient rites based on nature. Such as the harvest starting/ending (summer and autumn), fertility and rebirth (spring and summer), the spring/autumn equinoxes and the summer/winter solstices.
2006-11-01 06:19:35 · answer #3 · answered by readysteadystop 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't. Halloween was invented by Christians and has now become a secular holiday.
Samhain is a Pagan holiday and it falls anywhere from November 1-7. I see how you might get the two confused. there are so many huge similarites between the dumb supper and the trick or treating...
2006-10-31 14:57:56 · answer #4 · answered by kaplah 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a holiday that the church was unable to get rid of. So they turned it into a play thing instead of the holy day it used to be.
2006-10-31 14:10:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because its fun? And yes I concur with the "couldn't find something to convert it into so that the pagans were default christians" crap :)
2006-11-02 22:40:40 · answer #6 · answered by fuguee.rm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is fun, it is a show, it drews up business, it is like a big masquerade, draws communities together. it is a prep for x-mas
2006-10-31 14:12:41 · answer #7 · answered by MASQUE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋