why do they celebrate halloween
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- Halloween started in Ireland as a pagan holiday for people to celebrate the spirits of their ancestors. Then many, many years later people started dressing into costumes to sc … are away evil spirits. Now in this day in age it is a known holiday for children of some countries to dress up and get candy.
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Where did Halloween come from? Can a Christian celebrate it? Is it any different with Halloween (or Christmas)? No. Even though Halloween has pagan origins and because of your freedom in Christ, you and/or your kids can dress up in costumes and go door-to-door and just have fun.
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Halloween The word Halloween or Hallowe'en dates to about 1745 and is of Christian origin. The word Halloween means  hallowed evening or holy evening. It comes from a Scottish term for All Hallows' Eve (the evening before All Hallows' Day). In Scots, the word eve is even, and this is contracted to e'en or een. Over time, (All) Hallow(s) E(v)en evolved into Halloween.
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- One quarter of all the candy sold annually in the U.S. is purchased for Halloween. To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities.
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4 Real Things To Fear On Halloween Holidays are often the riskiest days to be on the road, and Halloween is no exception. The last time the holiday fell on a weekend, in 2011, 74 people died in drunk driving incidents, compared to about 27 people on an average day.
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- Day of the Dead is when people bake goods for the members of their fami … ly that have passed on. In different cultures they do different things like in Mexico they stay in the graveyard all night and celebrate, play games, and even 'talk' to their ancestors and loved ones, while giving offerings like skull candies and many other sweets.
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Why Do People Celebrate Holidays? Holidays are celebrated for a variety of reasons, including commemoration of historical events, as well as particular days that have ethnic, cultural and religious significance. The celebration of particular holidays is unique to each culture and society. Keep Learning.
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The Origins of Halloween Halloween or All Hallows Eve, as it is sometimes referred to, is a lot different now than it may have been celebrated many centuries ago. With October 31st coming around the corner, I thought it would be interesting to find out what the origins of Halloween were.
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- Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated in many parts of the  world on October 31st. It is often seen as the festival of the  dead.     The day is often associat…ed with symbols like the jack-o'-lantern  and the colors - Orange and Black.
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Origins of Halloween and the Day of the Dead The Fantasy and Folklore of All Hallows. Halloween had its beginnings in an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead. The Celtic peoples, who were once found all over Europe, divided the year by four major holidays. According to their calendar, the year began on a day corresponding to November 1st on our present calendar.
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- The All Saints Day celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints’ Day) and the night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.
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Autumn: The Cooling-Off Season Autumn in different cultures. 1  The Jewish festival of Sukkot, which commemorates the time spent in exile by giving thanks. 2  Halloween (All Hallows Eve) celebrations on Oct. 31 remind people of the connection with death, the spirits of those who have left this earth, and thus rebirth.
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SAMHAINOPHOBIA Samhainophobia is the fear of Halloween. In Ireland and Scotland, the Feile na Marbh (the festival of the dead-what we call Halloween-) took place on Samhain (the first few days of November). Samhainophobia is considered to be a specific phobia, which is discussed on the home page.
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Samhain Samhain (pronounced 'sow'inn') is a very important date in the Pagan calendar for it marks the Feast of the Dead. Many Pagans also celebrate it as the old Celtic New Year (although some mark this at Imbolc). It is also celebrated by non-Pagans who call this festival Halloween.eath also symbolises endings and Samhain is therefore not only a time for reflecting on mortality, but also on the passing of relationships, jobs and other significant changes in life. A time for taking stock of the past and coming to terms with it, in order to move on and look forward to the future.
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The Legend of âStingy Jackâ People have been making jack-o’-lanterns at Halloween for centuries. The practice originated from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed “Stingy Jack.” According to the story, Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn’t want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks.
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Mardi Gras Today, far less people observe Lent, but more than ever celebrate Mardi Gras because they are attracted to the party atmosphere, which includes music, food, and other people.
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Halloween in Colorado Springs In and around Colorado Springs, regardless of the weather, Halloween will still be widely celebrated at home and school costume parties, at local restaurants and bars and with friends and family. And all of this late October celebrating is good for the local economy.
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In El Salvador, citizens reject Halloween and celebrate a unique Day of the Dead The indigenous tradition known as “La Calabiuza” precedes the arrival of the Spanish to Americas. Only recently has the festival regained its prominence as the country’s most popular way to celebrate the Day of the Dead. The caravan of chanting revelers – some painted an ashen red and others acting as skeletons – attract the attention of locals and foreign tourists.
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Where Does âHalloweenâ Come From? Where Does “Halloween” Come From? Jack-o’-lanterns, costumes, candy—the clues to the easiest game of associations ever. Yes, these are things we love about Halloween, a holiday we celebrate on the last day of the month of October. For many of us, Halloween is all about costume parties, carving pumpkins, watching horror movies, and trick-or-treating.
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Halloween History: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Samhain was the Celtic “day of the dead” festival, held on November 1. As History.com points out, the holiday (pronounced sow-in) dates back over 2,000 years ago and was really the new year for the Celts. For them, it was the beginning of a new season and the time to start a harvest.
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Ancient Origins of Trick-or-Treating Ancient Origins of Halloween. Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1.
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Do the French celebrate Halloween? Where I live in Brittany, where we are Breton and so Celtic, some people celebrates Samain on that 1st november to celebrate the dark season. But they just have a breton dancing party called fest-noz and some get dressed with all those halloween stuff but it's more cultural than commercial at least. My point of view is that celebrating halloween in France in the American way is not the best thing to do. Each country (or region) has his own culture and habits and it's better that all cultures survive than to try to have one from another place.
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- It is usually a church or community-sponsored event held in a large parking lot. The sponsors of the Trunk or Treat event park their cars together and open their trunks to reveal Halloween-themed decorations. Children can walk from trunk to trunk to look at the decorations and receive candy and treats.
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- The modern celebration of Halloween comprises a cross-cultural stew of folk traditions, some less than a century old, others dating back to the Middle Ages, and still others, some say, dating back over 2,000 years.
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Which religions do not celebrate birthdays and why? Jehovah's Wintnesses don't because birthday celebrating has Pagan origin. Poor them though, they must have forgotten that times change. Also, in the Bible Christ said to celebrate His Ressurection I believe so they are radical about that. Also, Christmas is not the BIRTH of Christ WHATSOEVER.
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Jack-oâ-lantern: the legend behind the Halloween pumpkin The carved pumpkin lantern has been the symbol of Halloween since the early 19th century. But how did it become so? Did people just all of a sudden start carving pumpkins for the 31st of October? Apparently, as the legend goes, they just wanted to frighten someone.