Why does everyone dress up on October 31st. It all started as the day that marked the end of summertime and the beginning of a cold winter. This celebration started by the Celtic's as a festival to celebrate the spirits who would come back to visit earth. The Celtic's participated in a ritual that the locals would create big bonfire and disguise themselves as something scary to avoid harm from spirits that were evil. They would also leave out food for spirits so that the evil spirits wouldn’t harm people. By the 19th century Christianity made its way to the Celtic's which introduced the holiday called All Souls Day. Poor people were known to go around to other people's house to pray for the family member that had passed away in exchange for soul cake. That is how it came to be known as what kids do each year on October 31st trick-or-treating. Then throughout the year's most people would dress up as their favorite singer or funny thing they could find at the Spirit Halloween store. The famous Jack O'Lantern that story always gives me the chills. I provided the link if you would like to read the meaning behind Jack. The reason Jack O'Lantern's have such a big significance on Halloween is because it was another form of scaring the evil spirits away. They would carve scary figures into pumpkins or large beets. I find it so interesting how the celebration of Halloween started and how Americans now celebrate it. Many things that are done on Halloween are to protect people from evil spirits returning to earth. Did you know that you were scaring away evil spirits?
Hello Hannah,
ReplyDeleteI am very impressed with this blog because I learned a lot about Halloween that I had no idea about. The history behind Halloween blows my mind and i find it pretty creepy. Halloween has never really been my favorite holiday growing up and now that I know about it more, I’m not that excited for it anymore.