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Halloween origins, simbols and superstitions
Halloween is celebrated on Octomber 31 by wearing costumes, carved and decorated pumkins, watching horror movies, creating haunted houses and all kind of parties with your friends, family or co-workers.
On this day all the kids are wearing halloween costumes while going to their neighbors to ask for small gifts like sweets and snacks. Usually people are giving those sweets to avoid the little monsters to harm their family. Of course everything is made like a game and nobody gets hurt.
By carveing scary faces out of pumpkins and make them small lanterns and decorating their houses for the Halloween, all the people are trying to keep at distance the evil spirits.
Origins of the Halloween
The Halloween origins are in some parts of the Northern Europe (around the current United Kingdom) and it was first considered a pagan festival. The Halloween appeared around 2,000 years ago.
In United States was by Scotland and Ireland immigrants in 1800’s. At the beginning the Halloween was a celebration of the evening before All Saints’ Day.
In our days Halloween is a very profitable holiday but this was different at the beginning. Halloween have started to also make some profits at the beginning of 1900’s by using postcards and paper decorations.
The costumes appeared in 1930’s while the tradition of the kids wearing scary costumes and asking for sweets (also named trick-or-treat) appeared aound 1950.
Halloween Symbols
The Halloween has many symbols and most important of them are: the ghosts, carved pumpkins, walking skeletons, black cats, witches, wizards and spiders.
Halloween Superstitions
The Halloween holiday is cosidered to be filled with magic, superstitions and mystery.
Most of the superstitions are very well-known and here are the most important:
– We need to avoid black cats crossing our path as they bring bad luck
– Candles to help our loved ones to find their way back
– To avoid bad luck we also need not to walk on ladders
– Give the kids sweets so the evil spirts will not harm your family