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Its time play dressup in your scariest costume for the spookiest time of the year these days — Halloween. Also referred to as All Hallows’ Eve. It’s celebrated on Oct 31 each year. A celebration that dates back 2,000 years to the Celts of Britain. Also referred to as “Samhain” by the Irish to mark the end of harvest season . The Celts believed the date marked the dawn of the darkness, the beginning of winter. They lit bonfires to scare away the spirits and feasted and danced around the fires.
On these days, practitioners believe the boundaries between the two worlds, the living and also the dead, overlapped. The deceased would return to life and cause mayhem.Costumes and masks are worn to mix in and appease the deceased.
Carved pumpkins were used to protect oneself from ghosts. Today, the pumpkins are called ” jack o lanterns”. The story goes that the pumpkin is named after an irish farmer called Stingy Jack. He was cursed by the devil to walk on this earth for eternity using only a candle inside a scooped-out pumpkin to find his way.
Halloween is celebrated at slightly different scale in different countries. Everyone spruces up for the festival, together with their children,
Trick or treat?
In addition, the custom of ” trick- or- treat ” has its origins in the Middle Ages with a beggars who knocked on the doors of the rich to ask for food,the beggars prayed that the ghosts would not come to haunt the owners of the house that gave them food. As time passed by, it evolved into our modern version. Its time play dressup for children and went from door to door, knocking the house door saying ” trick or treat “. The children say ‘If you don’t open up, your nose can grow long’ outside each house,” According to custom, if no treats are given, kids can play tricks on the house owner or his property, therefore the term ‘Trick or Treat’.
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