What is Halloween's history?
Many cultures and religions have contributed to the holiday that we now know as Halloween. First, such celebrations let the Celtic and Roman pagans honor their dead ancestors, make peace with a bad fortune and prepare for the sleeping winter season. When Europe was Christianity, the Church was assigned to these festivities in honor of saints and the deceased. Eventually the waves of immigrants from Ireland and Scotland brought to America a tradition that in the mid -1920s joined as misfortune, costumes and sweets we know today. They were ancient people who lived around 0 NL, in modern Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The coming deficiency of the winter meant that the festival was at the top between life and death. On this occasion, Druids believed that the boundaries between dead and lives were meant. On the night of October 31, Samhain to honor those ancestors returning to the realm of life. Thus, while ordinary people celebrated costumed as sacred animals and danced around the fire, the druids performed believed to predict the future.
In the same era, Roman Pahani celebrated a similar festival to celebrate the dead, called Feralia. Instead of focusing on winter, it was a time of harvest, full of ripe fruit and abundant food from the goddess of Pomona. From this we borrow our apple-beyond and corneal and corkopia associated with Halloween. When Christianity swept through Europe, the Church had to transfer these pagan holidays to the holy days of worship. So they created the Day of All Saints to Fall 1 November to replace the holidays associated with death. When it was ineffective in full conversion of everyone, around 1000 NL the church declared 2 November per day of all souls so that people could recognize.
From the day of all saints and all souls we derive the name Halloween. In Central English, all saints are translated as Allowmesse, which was handed over as the whole Hallow evening and shortened as Hallowmas or Hallowe'en.
Other Halloween customs have recently been modified. SmitsSL for children was created because parents could easily blame him for the "spirits" visiting the night. Collection of candies and sweets from neighbors was originally a way to collect offers for all souls. Jack-O-Lacerna was a carved turnip with a candle inside, which was placed in the windows to avert the evil spirits. The Irish story goes that the stingy, sinful jack promises a devilish promise that will not be taken to hell. Jack must return to the devil when he is rejected from heaven. The devil gives him a burning ember, which is placed in a carved turntable to light up as a wandering soul. Pumpkin, because they are squash and not root, is easier to autove, so Irish immigrants in America preferred them to a turnip.