Halloween

The night of Halloween

What we now know as Halloween or Halloween is celebrated more than 3000 years ago by the Celts, a warlike people inhabiting parts of Ireland, England, Scotland and France. Precisely on October 31, the Celts celebrated the end of the year with Samhain, a pagan festival. With European immigration to the United States, mainly the Irish Catholics in 1846, came the tradition of Halloween to America. When it comes to Halloween or Day of the Witches you think costumes, makeup, party, sweets and children, but tradition says that his celebration was not always festive and cheerful, and that the rites that were practiced during the night had a character and religious purifier.October 31 is a date associated with the dead, lost souls, witches and spells. These characteristics are due to its proximity to the day of the dead, which led the Catholic Church and commemorated on November 1. As in other New Year festivals, on this date the dead were back among the living.The custom of trick or treating door to door (trick-or-treating) became popular around 1930. It is believed, not back to the Celtic culture but derives from a practice that emerged in Europe during the ninth century called souling, a kind of service to souls.The practice spread in the United States as an attempt by the authorities to control the barbarity that occurred during the night of Halloween.

Trick or Treat: 

Children and those who are not so disguised, while competing with each other to see which is the most horrific of all disguise, and go from house to house giving the famous ultimatum "trick or treat" (trick or treating) . Know the origin and meaning of this famous expression undoubtedly the favorite of children on the night of Halloween.