happy halloween

happy halloween 

Halloween - Halloween (All Hallows Evening or Beggars Night) - the night before All Saints 'Day (All Saints' Day). They say that Halloween is not less than two thousand years. The origins of this controversial holiday takes from the Celtic culture. The Celts there clearly marked "the beginning of the seasons." There were four. Samhain marked the coming of winter and celebrated on 31 October.

In the 7th century, Pope Boniface IV adopted November 1 All Saints' Day, wishing to divert the English people from the pagan customs. Later on November 2 became All Souls Day - when all the dead commemorated. However, the tradition preserved in people's memory, and to overcome them until the end did not succeed. In recent years the festival thoroughly returned to Europe, it is also popular in some Asian countries. Children dress up in costumes of monsters and go on a neighbor's home, vytorgovyvaya sweets. Also arranged masquerades, and the window is exposed hollow pumpkin with carved eyes and mouth, and a candle inside to scare away the spirits.

By the way, the pumpkin - the invention of the Americans. And before that in Ireland and Scotland, scary masks, which are then inserted into a candle, carved out of turnips and potatoes, and in England - from beets.

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