halloween has been an international(holiday)children and adult celebrate, this cult tradition?

Question

how has the celebration of halloween change

Answer 1

Halloween in many pagan areas was a typical celebration. Most people know it was shortened from All Hallow's Eve, the eve of All Saint's Day.

All Saints Day was in May. That

In most of the Northern pagan religions, they celebrated he Feast of the Lemures that week (in may). Christianity called the day that started that Feast Week All Saints Day.

Now Halloween as we know it is a combination of pagan rituals. Not "cult" mind you but true pagan, as in the sacred religious beliefs of culture. Usually we refer to the pagan event of Samhain Night. Thats the Fall Festival, the end of summer and the end of the fall harvest time. You ran around the crops with fire to protect them from evil. It was a time of stocking up to make sure you had enough to get through winter. Pagan traditions are normally nature based and this one celebrates the end of summer.

When Christianity finally began to...we will say overthrow pagan religions, they had a hard time getting the pagans to follow their beliefs. So they started celebrating all the pagan holidays and calling them Christian names. That is why all Christian holidays are on the same day as pagan holidays. So whoever was Pope at the time--around 850 or so--moved All Saints Day to November 1 to make the pagan festival Samhain October 31. Mostly this is believed that the pagans were ok with giving up their Winter Solstice (very close to what Christians call Christmas), the start of spring and Vernal equinox (very similar in time to Easter), but the fall harvest was too bountiful and too big of a deal to give up. The pagans continued to dress up like demons while those dressing up as "good people" continued to beat the crops and drive the demons from the land.

Most cultures in fact have a day of honor of the spirit world. The idea is that on a certain day it is easier for the spirits to walk the world of the living. In some cultures it is good--the spirits have a moment to watch over and bond with the living. In some it was the night demons came out and stole your children. In Spanish cultures (mainly Mexico now), the Day of the Dead is similar. In China, they regularly celebrate the dead ancestors but in particular they have a Chinese holiday called the Ghost Festival.

The celebration of Halloween was recently revived. Basically Christianity won out and pagan rituals were banned. In mid 1800s, during the Irish Potato Famine, Irish people moved to America in mass, bring Halloween traditions (that were never beat out of them) with them. Starting in 1900s it became quite an event but the idea of trick-or-treating wasn't started until the 1950s.

Against what the other poster has said--with the exception of the Puritans (who enjoyed killing anyone different) few people have ever considered Satan as having anything to do with it.

Answer 2

For probably 50 years now Halloween has just been what it is today - a holiday where you dress up, have parties, and candy. Nothing sinister, nothing cult like. However the holiday began, it is now simply a time to celebrate, dress up, and have fun.

Satan would probably be disappointed with how happy and fun we have made this holiday! I think it's great.