so why is halloween called halloween? its called samhain eve where i come from?

Question

and the fairies are rairing to go so theve told me? so watch out and answer carefully.

Answer 1

The others have been accurate to the extent each explained. All the fairies are pleased!

--That Cheeky Lad

Answer 2

The Celts believed that on October 31, the boundary separating the dead from the living became blurred. That is known as Samhain. Christians celebrate All Saints Day which took place on November 1. Saints are also known as Hallows so the day before became known as "The Eve of All Hallows" and eventually became Halloween.

Answer 3

Halloween got here from the Pagan holiday Samhain (stated "sow-in"). Samhain is the party of the recent year. Like Ostara (now Easter) and xmas (now Christmas), the Christians "Christianized" the holiday. The Pope moved All Saints Day from the spring to coincide with Samhain, which became the top of the year. The call became replaced to All Hallows Eve, meaning the eve of a holy day. (think of, "Hallowed be thy call...") The words ran at the same time to create one notice: Halloween.

Answer 4

All Hallow's Eve = the night before All Saints Day, when the ghosts of dead saints are supposed to come back before being celebrated on Nov 1st. That's a holiday in some countries like France when people take chysanthemum plants to their family graves. In fact Nov 2nd is the Day of the Dead, according to the church calendar so that might be more sensible for remembering loved ones...

Answer 5

Halloween originated under a different name ("samhain") as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain with mainly Irish and Scots and other immigrants transporting versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Most other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late twentieth century.
The term Halloween, and its older rendering Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening of/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 the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although we now consider All Saints' (or Hallows') day to be on the day after Halloween, they were, at that time, considered to be the same day

Answer 6

Hello. It is called halloween because the real name is all hallows eve. Or the night that the spirits come out to the human realm for a night of feasting or even scaring.

Answer 7

Good question: The word "halloween" is derived from "All Hallow's Even," which is a feast created by the Christian church as an attempt to defuse the feast of Samhain.

Answer 8

I believe it comes from "All Hallow's Eve"

Answer 9

its also known as all hollows eve. the eve of all saints day.

Answer 10

IT RELLY IS CALLED DAY OF THE DEAD