I don't get the point of Halloween. I mean I know the kids want the candy but can't they just buy 2 boxes of candy. And what's up with the costume. I just think Halloween is kind of dumb don't you?
2007-09-22 17:05:16 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
I think it's far from being dumb. Originally it was a holiday celebrated by non-Christian peoples. Then the church decided to use an already exsisting holidy to better convert people to Christianity. They realized it would be easier to convert people by keeping their celebrations in place but telling them instead of what it once meant it now meant something else. Then over time the church forgot that All Saints Day was at one time called Hallowsmas (Hallows being another name for Saints and All Hallowsmas being the Feast of the Hallows) and the evening before was All Hallowsmas Eve. Hallowsmas Eve became Hallows Even, then Halloweve, then Hallowe'en, and finally Halloween.
And until the late 1800s - early 1900s Halloween was largely a holiday for adults. Slowly adult parties faded into obscurity while childrens parties became more popular. However, pranks also became something of a concern. To keep kids from pulling pranks that might be of a destructive manner, around the 1930s the idea of allowing kids to go door to door trick or treating arose both as a way to bring communities together and to keep as many kids out of trouble as possible. The trick or treating came from the idea of people going door to door for soul cakes. No longer are soul cakes offered, today they have become candy. But trick or treating is still a throw back of going door to door seeking soul cakes.
The baby boomer generation is being touted with helping to bring Halloween back as now being as much an adult's holiday as it is a children's holiday. As they grew up many did not wish to stop experincing Halloween. Gone would be the trick or treating, but the dressing up for Halloween remained thanks to costume parties and such Slowly the baby boomers, and the generatations that have followed, have helped to rekindle Halloween as an adult holiday.
2007-09-22 18:58:10 · answer #1 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I guess it's just fun for the kids (and some adults too). In my family, we always had an Easter egg hunt at Easter. Yes, we could have just had a box of eggs and eaten them, but it's so much more fun to go and find them! But the thing that bothers me about Halloween is the way kids go and knock on people's doors asking for candy - even if they are strangers. There are so many sick people out there, you don't know what they might do. Most of the time, parents tell their children not to talk to or accept food from strangers. Yet at Halloween, they encourage it!
2007-09-23 00:15:30 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love Halloween. It's a historical tradition that was started a really long time ago and just got out of controll.
"Halloween originated under the name of Samhain as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries have embraced the holiday as a part of American pop culture in the late twentieth century." Wikipedia
2007-09-23 00:09:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Halloween is a lot of fun, it's great to see kids out dressed up and running around as their favorite character or scary monster.
Halloween or Samhain is actually the festival of the harvest, the Celtic New Year. It is a time to celebrate the previous year and be with friends and family.
2007-09-23 00:09:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Halloween started as much more than dressing up, ringing doorbells and pigging out on candy. It was originally called All Hallows Eve. Put it in a search on google, and you'll get loads of info.
2007-09-23 00:09:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is dumb now but to little kids it fun to play pretend to be someone else even if its just a few hours and getting to know your neighbors and getting loads of candy.
2007-09-23 00:11:40 · answer #6 · answered by Keefers 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
where is the fun in buying your own candy???? i like halloween because its the one day of the year where you can forget who you are and be someone else just for the fun of it...and how many times a year is it acceptable to scare the crap out of people like your younger sibilings (i think i spelled that wrong) but the point is its nice to pretend your another person or thing just to walk door to door, to beg for candy in trade of not being tricked, in someone elses shoes.
2007-09-23 00:17:55 · answer #7 · answered by LuvULuLu 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's the fun in getting to go beyond the boundaries of normal childhood for a night. Getting to go out at night and wander the neighborhood, getting to be the scary thing instead of being scared of what's out there, getting to GET two bags of candy and having your parents allow it. It's all about fun and playing pretend in a fully adult sanctioned event.
2007-09-23 00:10:16 · answer #8 · answered by lacesuntied 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the fun of it sure you can buy 2 boxes of candy but wheres the fun in that?
2007-09-23 00:07:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I LOVE Halloween... maybe it was just never special enough for you.. To me, it's fun. Was fun to go trick or treating as a kid, and now fun to do up my yard and have a good time with that. I have a whole little shed full of my "toys" (props). And thanks to cool stuff in some stores and QVC...have added to it yet again. And I LOVE old vintage style decorations. (Hey, everyone has a vice, at least mine is just a once a year thing.)
2007-09-23 00:12:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋