what is halloween?

Answer 1

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. Apart from this trick-or-treating, there are many other traditional Halloween activities. Some of these include costume parties, watching horror films, going to "haunted" houses, and traditional autumn activities such as hayrides, some of these even "haunted". A more complete coverage of Hallowen customs can be found at Halloween traditions.

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.

Halloween is celebrated in most parts of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and with increasing popularity in Australia and New Zealand, as well as the Philippines. In recent years, Halloween has also been celebrated in parts of Western Europe, such as Belgium, France and Spain.

The term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, 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 from May 13 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 and 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 holiday celebrated many years ago to celebrate for the dead. The former name was Hallow's Eve but then changed to Halloween.
Halloween uses spiders, rats, owls, broomsticks, ghosts, etc., because people believed sages were 'Witches' and so thought that the creatures and objects and false things were slaves to the witches.
Hallow's Eve was celebrated by Catholics to celebrate and thank saints. But then All Saints Day was made.

Candy is given because long ago, children would knock on people's door in the name of a Greek god who will burn the house down with tongues of fire (the trick), or for the people in the house to give something good away to the child (the treat).


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Answer 3

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, and with increasing popularity in Australia and New Zealand, as well as the Philippines. In recent years, Halloween is also celebrated in parts of Western Europe, such as Belgium and France. 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.

Answer 4

Halloween is an event that occurs October 31. Small children and adults dress up in costumes. Some examples of costumes are ghosts, vampires, monstors, pirates, princesses, gothic people, bikers, superstars, clowns, ice skaters, witches, wizards, cartoon characters, and more. In the evening from about 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm these people take bags and plastic pumpkins in costume and go door to door in neighborhoods and big cities. Once at the door, they ring the doorbell. Once someone comes to the door they yell, "Trick or treat!" and the person at the door gives them candy. They put this candy in their bag or plastic pumpkin and continue on their way. Most candies consist of M&M's, skittles, Hershey's Chocolate, Laffy Taffy, Nerds, Almond Joys, Hershey's Kisses, Babe Ruths, Butterfingers, Twizzlers, and more.
On average a child may get 5 pounds or more of candy. Most children also go in groups and have parties. In college towns, as much as 50,000 people gather at popular streets and have parades.
Decoration during the Halloween season include hay bales, graveyard tombstones in front yards, fake spider webs, wood black cats and ghosts in the ground, and most of all, pumpkins. Pumpkins are carved into neat faces or desings and a candle is placed in the middle. The pumpkins are then placed on the front door of the house.

Answer 5

Halloween was meant for the celebration of Pumpkin. But they've turn it out from what it was actually mean to be. There's so much killing and devilish things that happens during that period. Just don't know why all of it happens. But one thing for sure is it was created for the Celebration Of Pumpkin just like celebrating the Harvest.

Answer 6

THE REAL HALLOWEEN

TREAT … OR TRICK?

'The Druid priests believed that the dead returned to their original homes that night and if food and shelter wasn’t forthcoming the evil spirits would respond by casting wicked spells on those who refused them.

The Celts offered sacrifices to these "dead spirits" and it was believed that if they were happy with what they were given they would leave you alone. Otherwise you were in trouble and horrible consequences would ensue. The Druids would go from house to house demanding gifts and cursing anyone who denied them. This is the origin of the modern-day "trick or treat".'

Answer 7

A day for kids to get candy.....actuall halloween is nothing compared to the following days; kids go crazy and sugar-high, drive sensable people insane, and polute the world with multiple candy wrappers.
FUN FUN FUN! ;-)

Answer 8

Fiona the Human, mixed with Ciel Phantomhive, I'm gonna have Ciel's hair and eypatch, with the clothes of Fiona. I know it sounds stupid, but i want to be both Ciel and Fiona, so im just mixing it up. Plus, I did order a Ciel costume, it's not gonna ship until next week. (and it's coming from Hong Kong)

Answer 9

halloween is the eve before all saints day which is called hallomas and halloween means eve of all hallows

Answer 10

A really dumb day where people dress in costume, steal your candy and do tricks on you. It also is the day where millions of kids get kidnapped and killed.