Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, primarily in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holiday All Saints' Day, but is today largely a secular celebration.
Common Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, ghost tours, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, committing pranks, telling ghost stories or other frightening tales, and watching horror films.
Development of artifacts and symbols associated with Halloween formed over time encompassing customs of medieval holy days as well as contemporary cultures. The souling practice of commemorating the soulsin purgatory with candle lanterns carved from turnips, became adapted into the making of jack-o'-lanterns.In traditional Celtic Halloween festivals, large turnips were hollowed out, carved with faces, and placed in windows to ward off evil spirits.The carving of pumpkins is associated with Halloween in North America where pumpkins are both readily available and much larger – making them easier to carve than turnips.Many families that celebrate Halloween carve a pumpkin into a frightening or comical face and place it on their doorstep after dark. The American tradition of carving pumpkins preceded the Great Famine period of Irish immigration and was originally associated with harvest time in general, not becoming specifically associated with Halloween until the mid-to-late 19th century.
The imagery of Halloween is derived from many sources, including national customs, works of Gothic and horror literature (such as the novels Frankenstein and Dracula), and classic horror films (such asFrankenstein and The Mummy).Elements of the autumn season, such as pumpkins, corn husks, andscarecrows, are also prevalent. Homes are often decorated with these types of symbols around Halloween.
Halloween imagery includes themes of death, evil, the occult, magic, or mythical monsters. Traditional characters include ghosts, witches, skeletons, vampires, werewolves, demons, bats, spiders, and black cats. Black and orange are the traditional Halloween colors and represent the darkness of night and the color of bonfires, autumn leaves, and jack-o'-lanterns.
hey it seams like you read what a wrote yesterday ... well thanxx :D im pretty sure youll have more public . the story of halloween is cool . i read the story of jack o'lantern by clicking on the link , now i don't know if i have to eb scared or what .
ReplyDeletethanx again fot writtin' this in english . bye
i like it best now that the blog is in english thanx , are you gonna write everythin in english?
ReplyDeleteпросьбы написать на английском языке, легче для меня, что я Русский. довольно прохладно этой статье, но я не люблю историю, чтобы ... Ну, в любом случае я думаю, это круто это знать. до свидания
ReplyDeleteHey Gossipers!! I'm Beck, right now i'm not with Emmy but i'll try to answer for we both .
ReplyDeleteTo begin with, yes.We're trying to traduce the whole blog into english.By now we are just writting articles but soon blog is going to be only english.
Secondly, mm... i'm sorry "Autin_H" i don't know which language is that one, but , you can use google to traduce into english something like "Hey! it's greek/german/rusian" , then I'll traduce the commet so don't worry to post again the comment in english .
Well, we'll soon start posting videos and all that stuff so log on daily to see them, anyway you can become a "follower" of the site, and you'll get an e-mail when we post something.
Bye, Beck H.