Halloween origins and history

Halloween origins and history,...... Halloween comes from Samhain festival (from the Old Irish language samain) which celebrated the ancient Celtic people. The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and sometimes called the "Celtic New Year". People who embrace paganism Celtic hereditary festival used the opportunity to slaughter livestock and stockpile food in preparation for winter. The nation's ancient Gael believes that the date October 31, the limiting world of the dead and the living world into the open. The dead endanger people living with disease and damage crops. While celebrating the festival, Gael lit a bonfire to burn the bones of animals that they are hamstrung. Gael people wearing costumes and masks to impersonate or evil spirits trying to make peace with them.

Origin of term

The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before All Hallows Day.Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556

Halloween is short for All Hallows' Even (eve and events are equally meaningful evening / night) which means the night before the feast of All Hallows is now called the Feast of All Saints (All Saints Holy Day). The letter "n" at the end of the word Halloween is derived from the event .. In ancient times, on November 1, used as a day of festival to the religion's in various European pagan traditions until Pope Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the celebration of All Saints' Day according to the calendar saint from May 13 to November 1. May 13, was once celebrated as a pagan feast day for the festival of Lemuria.

Feast of All Saints Christian missionary determined to coincide with the pagan feast of the reasons for wanting to believe pagans to Christianity. All Souls' Day (Day of the Dead) celebrates the arrival of the spirits of relatives and relatives returned to earth to this day still celebrated in some countries such as Brazil, Mexico, and Philippines.

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