Halloween Fun Nights 2019

Halloween Horror Nights 2019, and the fun of Celebrating Ghosts 

                      The Living Legend 
                      Ahmad Javed Kamran Amiri

                      Dated: Sunday 20th October 2019

No doubt you are all familiar with the names and faces of Halloween celebrations, which are held in Western countries every year on October 31st. A party where everything is scary and exciting, and perhaps the participants are trying to portray the scariest night of the year. But what is Halloween and what do we know about it? Where does the celebration's background come from and why is it such an event on October 31? Stay tuned for more on the scariest celebration of the year.

Halloween is an ancient Celtic celebration. The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in what is now Ireland, England and northern France, celebrated New Year's Day on November 1. For them, it was the end of summer and the time of harvest, but it was the beginning of the colder and darker days of the year, which some saw as dead. The Celts believed that the day before the New Year, the boundary between the living and the dead would disappear. So they celebrated the night of October 31 with the belief that their dead spirits had returned to Earth.

While many people were having trouble getting through the cold season, the Celts thought the presence of ghosts would make Celtic clerics and priests better predict the future. For people who were totally dependent on such thinking, these predictions - right or wrong - made life more secure and comfortable during the dark, cold days of winter.

To do this, the forgerists would often set up a huge fire that would have the people who wanted to know the future gather around this fire and sacrifice crops or even animals to the Celtic gods. During the ceremony, the Celts wore disguises that usually included the skin and heads of the animals, trying to predict each other's future on this night.

At the end of the ceremony, they lit a fire near their home that would catch the flame from the great fire they knew was sacred, thereby protecting them from the cold of winter. The Celts were not yet called Halloween but Samhain. But over time this celebration has undergone some changes by Christians.

Since the ninth century Christianity has become widespread in the Celtic lands, with many of the old Celtic customs being changed. Early in the tenth century, November 2 was called the Day of All Souls, a day in which people respected the dead. Many today believe that Christians are trying to merge this day with the day of the Celts festival dead to bring people to church-related celebrations.

The day of reverence for the spirits in the Christian world was exactly like a Samhain celebration, where a fire was lit and people wore angels and devils and saints. This holy day was also called All Hallows Eve, which in time became Halloween, and its date coincides with the Samhain celebration of October 31, which remains the name of a celebration rooted in Celtic history and tradition.

A few tips about Halloween:

1. It wasn't celebrated in the United States until the second half of the 19th century, but after that the influx of immigrants from Ireland and the surrounding area to the United States soon made it an annual American celebration.

2. One of the hallmarks of Halloween that is still seen today is chocolate collecting. In the past, poor people in every city used to demand food from other people, and they also cooked and celebrated the Halloween cake they called "soul cake", believing that by helping They, the poor, pray for their dead.

3. Almost a quarter of all chocolate sold in the US is bought on Halloween.

4. The tradition of wearing disguises is also of Celtic and European origin. As it was said on Halloween night, people believed that ghosts were coming to Earth, so they disguised themselves in disguises and masks in the city in order not to be identified!

5. On Halloween Day, people were putting food bowls outside the house to get the spirits out of their homes. They believed this would prevent ghosts and death in their home.

6. Cutting and shaping pumpkins was also an Irish tradition. However, they initially used turnip instead of pumpkin. They emptied the inside of the turnip and made it look like a face and used it as a lantern. They believed that they would remove the evil spirits from their homes and lives. Since the 18th century, pumpkins have been replaced by turnips, as they were found to be abundant and easier to give to their liking.

7. Fireworks, apples playing, visiting deserted and scary places, telling scary stories and watching horror movies this night.

8. Although Halloween has no American roots, it has become one of the largest celebrations in America. Today, Americans spend about $ 6 billion on Halloween celebrations, making Halloween the second-most expensive celebration of Americans after Christmas.

Source:

• History