Where
Did HALLOWEEN Come From?
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Costumes & candy, spiders & scarecrows,
haunted houses & Jack-o¡¯-lanterns! There¡¯s nothing quite like the spooky
fun of Halloween! But have you ever wondered, where did Halloween come from?
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Costumesand candy, spiders and scarecrows, haunted
houses, and jack-o-lanterns. There¡¯s nothing quite like the spooky fun of
Halloween, but have you ever wondered where did Halloween come from?
Let¡¯s find out on today¡¯s episode of Colossal
Questions.
Halloween dates all the way back to the ancient Celtic
people who celebrated Samhain, one of their most important holidays on November
1st.
Samhain marked the end of the harvest season and
beginning of the cold, dark winter. In Celtic lore, the boundary between the
living and the dead becomes blurred on the night before the New Year, October
31st.
Ghosts roam the earth, damage property and cause
all-around havoc. The Celtic priests called Druids built giant bonfires to
combat the ghastly spirits. People would gather all around, wearing costumes
made from animals, and would try to tell each other's fortunes. Sounds a little familiar, right?
Okay, so that¡¯s Halloween¡¯s origins, but when did it
become Halloween as we know it today?
Well, that started when the Romans invaded and eventually took control
over the Celtic lands. In order to ease the transition to Roman rule, the
Romans blended two of their own holidays with the old Celtic New Year
traditions.
One of the Roman holidays commemorated the dead, and
the other celebrated the goddess of trees and fruit, and may have been the
origin of bobbing for apples. This spooky blended holiday was forced to change
once again when the Celtic church established a festival called All Saints¡¯ Day
to be held every year on November 1st.
The All Saints¡¯ Day celebration was also called
All-hallows, or All-hallowmas, and the night before it, October 31st, the
traditional night of Samhain began to be called All-hallows¡¯ Eve, and over time
Halloween.
When a wave of European immigrants came to the United
States in the 1800s, they brought their hodgepodge Halloween holiday traditions
with them. In the late 1800s, the U.S. tried to sanitize the holiday into a
night of community gathering rather than a celebration of ghosts and ghouls.
But clearly that didn¡¯t work, because by the turn of
the 20th century, Halloween parties with costumes, games, and seasonal food
quickly became the most popular way to celebrate Halloween. So over time,
Halloween went from an ancient fall harvest festival
to a day mostly about candy, costumes, tricks, treats, and spooky fun.
And now you know that Halloween is older than you
might think.
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Questions:
1. Why do you think people enjoy celebrating Halloween?
2. How do Halloween traditions today compare to the
original Celtic celebration of Samhain?
3. If you could create a new Halloween
tradition, what would it be?