2007-10-28 03:15:31 · 12 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
because they all want meningitis really badly.
2007-10-28 03:23:04 · answer #1 · answered by coolness 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one knows for sure where apple bobbing came from, but through some fairly extensive research on Halloween I have found what appears to be the only decent suggested explanation. Halloween is a conglomerate holiday that began as a Celtic festival called Samhain, but was later mixed with pagan Roman tradition as well as later Catholic ceremony that were brought in by invading or migrating groups.
Two festivals, one called Feralia (honoring the dead) and another called Pomona (honoring a harvest goddess) were introduced to Celtic people. Apple bobbing may have been a part of the celebrations of the latter. The tradition caught on, as did other Catholic and Roman customs, and merged with Celtic Samhain. This new marriage of tradition later became known as Halloween and remained popular in Ireland and was introduced to the Americas when boatloads of migrants arrived from Ireland to escape the potato famine in the 1840s.
2007-10-28 03:36:38 · answer #2 · answered by Donny S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Celts inhabited the area of the world that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France about 2,000 years ago and because their lives revolved around agriculture, they considered the end of the year to be the end of the harvest season.
On what is now 31 October every year, they celebrated New Year's Eve with a festival called "Samhain" … [and] it was believed that the spirits of those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year because it was their only hope for the afterlife.
Eventually the Celts were conquered by the Romans and around 43AD Samhain was combined with two Roman festivals: Feralia, a day in late October commemorating the passing of the dead and a festival in honor of Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees whose symbol is the apple.
This probably explains the tradition of apple "bobbing".
2007-10-28 03:31:42 · answer #3 · answered by pumpkin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a hold over from older days when apples were coming to season at this time. There were plenty of them. This also originalted in a time when people sis play such games and things as part of village celebrations - long before movies, TV and computers came in to break down social bonding in families and the populations of small villages.
2007-10-28 03:19:39 · answer #4 · answered by organbuilder272 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they want an apple for Bob.
2007-10-28 03:35:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Traditionally fall is the season when apples are abundant - just ripe and being harvested. People would wash the apples in a big barrel, and it was fun to play to try to catch an apple in your mouth from the barrel!
2007-10-28 03:24:29 · answer #6 · answered by Princess Picalilly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Hallow's Eve, a time when the destinction between past, present and future were blurred. Many of the Halloween games took advantage of this belief and were based on diving for the future.
2007-10-28 03:37:41 · answer #7 · answered by Marilyn M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
used to whilst i became small and whilst my little ones have been small we did the apple bobbing (continuously get moist) the peeling of the apple and throwing the entire peel at the back of you and it touchdown in a preliminary of the guy/lady your going to marry, the spooky thoughts, the toffee apples
2017-01-04 13:26:09 · answer #8 · answered by kash 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
burnt my face once bobbing for chips
2007-10-28 03:18:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That question is not written in a language I understand
bob is a name not a verb
or can be replaced by weave
2007-10-28 03:20:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋