For those who didn't know Halloween is All Hallows Eve. Hallow being a saintly figure. The new year All Hallows Day (all saints day) was on November 1st and in the night before that was counted as an otherworldly time between the two years when all the ghosts and ghools came out.
2007-10-31 01:12:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
The secularized Halloween is still celebrated because people and their children have a lot of fun with it. There is among neopagans the Samhain celebration that coincides, and we still see it as our spiritual new year.
2007-10-31 01:17:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because the Chritian invented All Saint Day to thwart the pagan festival Samain.
But as everywere in the world, the pagan beliefs were so strong than even if people celebrated a Christian Holiday, they still, in their mind and heart, celebrated Samain, especially in Ireland which was evangelised very late.
When Irish immigrants came to the USA, they brought with them their way to celebrate Halloween / Samain.
It's not really the new year they celebrated at Samain, but it was the period of the year when souls, spirits, ghosts can come in the world of the living.
2007-10-31 01:29:52 · answer #2 · answered by tokala 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are two different "festivals", not New Years. Halloween is held the evening before All Saints Day, which is 1st November. Halloween is shortened version of All Hallows Eve, which is celebrating the souls of the departed.
2007-10-31 01:28:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hallowe'en was originally the Pagan celebration of Samhain. It falls on the day seen as the 'thinnest veil' between the living and thise who have passed on. It was originally a memorial day when people would remember friends and loved ones who had influenced their lives. A time to give thanks for their contribution to life.
Now, of course, it's just a commercialised time of dressing up and pumpkins!
2007-10-31 01:23:10 · answer #4 · answered by Lunar_Chick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christ wasn't born on December 25, either.
Easter, commemorating the Resurrection, changes dates every year-- it can't possibly be the "real" date of the events.
We celebrate "Presidents' Day", which Used to be about Washington and Lincoln, on a Monday which is usually not the birthday of wither of those guys...
Holidays have very little to do with historical fact, and very much to do with tradition and culture.
2007-10-31 01:24:10 · answer #5 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Idk
2007-10-31 01:20:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋