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6 de may. de 2024 · Halloween is a holiday that marks the day before the Western Christian feast of All Saints, or All Hallows, and initiates the season of Allhallowtide. In much of Europe and North America, celebration of Halloween is largely nonreligious.
- Halloween
Halloween takes place on October 31. It is a time when...
- All Souls’ Day
All Souls’ Day, in Roman Catholicism, a day for...
- Divination
divination, the practice of determining the hidden...
- Unicef
UNICEF, special program of the UN devoted to aiding national...
- Month
October, 10th month of the Gregorian calendar. Its name is...
- Why Do We Celebrate Halloween
Today Halloween is considered a holiday for dress-up and...
- Halloween
- When Is Halloween 2023?
- Ancient History of Halloween
- All Saints' Day
- How Did Halloween Start in America?
- History of Trick-Or-Treating
- Halloween Parties
- Halloween Movies
- All Souls Day and Soul Cakes
- Black Cats and Ghosts on Halloween
- Halloween Matchmaking and Lesser-Known Rituals
Halloween is celebrated each year on October 31. Halloween 2023 will take place on Tuesday, October 31.
Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago, mostly in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a ti...
On May 13, A.D. 609, Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Pantheonin Rome in honor of all Christian martyrs, and the Catholic feast of All Martyrs Day was established in the Western church. Pope Gregory III later expanded the festival to include all saints as well as all martyrs, and moved the observance from May 13 to November 1. By the 9th century, the...
The celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there. Halloween was much more common in Marylandand the southern colonies. As the beliefs and customs of different European ethnic groups and the American Indians meshed, a distinctly American version of Halloween began to emer...
Borrowing from European traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today’s “trick-or-treat” tradition. Young women believed that on Halloween they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or mirrors....
By the 1920s and 1930s, Halloween had become a secular but community-centered holiday, with parades and town-wide Halloween parties as the featured entertainment. Despite the best efforts of many schools and communities, vandalism began to plague some celebrations in many communities during this time. By the 1950s, town leaders had successfully lim...
Speaking of commercial success, scary Halloween movieshave a long history of being box office hits. Classic Halloween movies include the “Halloween” franchise, based on the 1978 original film directed by John Carpenter and starring Donald Pleasance, Nick Castle, Jamie Lee Curtis and Tony Moran. In “Halloween,” a young boy named Michael Myers murder...
The American Halloween tradition of trick-or-treating probably dates back to the early All Souls’ Day parades in England. During the festivities, poor citizens would beg for food and families would give them pastries called “soul cakes” in return for their promise to pray for the family’s dead relatives. The distribution of soul cakes was encourage...
Halloween has always been a holiday filled with mystery, magic and superstition. It began as a Celtic end-of-summer festival during which people felt especially close to deceased relatives and friends. For these friendly spirits, they set places at the dinner table, left treats on doorsteps and along the side of the road and lit candles to help lov...
But what about the Halloween traditions and beliefs that today’s trick-or-treaters have forgotten all about? Many of these obsolete rituals focused on the future instead of the past and the living instead of the dead. In particular, many had to do with helping young women identify their future husbands and reassuring them that they would someday—wi...
11 de jun. de 2022 · Halloween es una festividad popular de origen anglosajón que se extiende por el mundo. ¿Qué es Halloween? Halloween o Hallowe’en es el nombre en inglés de una festividad popular conocida también como la Noche de los Muertos, la Víspera de Todos los Santos o la Noche de Brujas.
31 de oct. de 2022 · Recorremos la historia de la noche de Halloween y las razones de su popularidad actual. ¿Por qué se celebra con disfraces y golosinas? Todas las respuestas en este artículo de National Geographic.
26 de oct. de 2023 · Halloween mezcla el tradicional recuerdo a los difuntos y al mundo de ultratumba con prácticas modernas como el truco o trato, originado a inicios del siglo XX. Este proceso cristalizaba en el mundo celta en el Samhain , una festividad de origen druídico celebrada entre el crepúsculo del 31 de octubre y el del 1 de noviembre y que ...
30 de oct. de 2023 · El Halloween o Noche de brujas es una popular celebración en Estados Unidos pero su impacto ha sido tal que muchas culturas más allá del mundo anglosajón la han adoptado. ¿Cómo llegamos hasta...
