Halloween Came From Where?

Halloween Came From Where?

1. HAPPY HALLOWEEN
2. Late summer
3. SPOOKY
4. The shoulder COLD
5. Hallow's Eve
6. Biting the apple
7. TRICK
8. OR TREAT
9. Jack O 'Lantern
10.The great pumpkin

. HAPPY HALLOWEEN 1

Pillar Of all the holidays that populate our year, Halloween is one of the oldest, dating back thousands of years. Thanksgiving, July 4th, Easter and Christmas are also young in comparison.

Follow me and I'll take you on a path that follows through the ages to the costume and candy night walk that we celebrate today.

2. SUMMER'S END

Originally started as a Celtic festival, Druidic priests regarded the day as the end of the year and a feast for the crop year. October 31 was the first day of a three-day festival called Samhain, meaning "late summer". It marked the passage of the sun on the season the season of darkness, but was also a celebration to honor the dead. The Celts believed that the laws of space and time were suspended on this night, allowing the spirit world of crossover and intermingle with the living world.

3. SPOOKY

According to legend, the disembodied spirits of all those who had disappeared during the preceding year would come back that night in search of living bodies to possess for the following year. Apparently, it was their only hope for an afterlife. To protect themselves, the Celtic priests developed spells, incantations and rituals burning sacrifices to appease wandering spirits that roamed the night.

4. The shoulder COLD

Of course, certainly would not be alive to get possessed, so on the night of Oct. 31, people would have extinguished the fires in their fireplaces and furnaces, to make their homes cold and undesirable to the wandering spirits. To complete the ritual, they would then dress in ghoulish costumes, parading around the neighborhoods causing Ruckus and destruction in order to scare away spirits looking for a warm body to inhabit.

5. Hallow's Eve

The word Halloween is a mix. Samhain (pronounced sow-en, the sow rhymes with cow, that "it" is an important part to remember) was combined with the Catholic feast of the November 1 "All Hallows Eve, otherwise known as All Hallows Day" or "All Saints Day." The old English word "Hallow," meant to sanctify. It was the day to honor the Catholic saints. By the 7th century AD it was adapted as "All Soul's Day" to honor all the dead and not just the saints. Over time, these two celebrations were combined into one mega-fest by the growing populations of Europe. And abracadabra sow-en and Hallows Eve merged creating Halloween. Ireland is sometimes referred to as Hallow e'en, and more magic, Halloween, further emphasizing the marriage of terms and holidays.

6. Biting the apple

At the end of the traditional Roman festival on November 1 in honor of Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees, was absorbed into the Halloween punch bowl. Bringing its own traits with it symbol Pomona was an apple, which probably inspired the party activity bobbing for apples.

7. ... TRICK

Halloween came to America with early Irish and Scottish immigrants. The belief in spirit possession was lowered compared to the first day and the act of dressing up like vampires, goblins, ghosts and witches was more like fun ceremony today.

However, anarchy has remained since the early Celtic days. Favorite tricks of the time were overturning outhouses, especially with someone inside and unhinging fence gates, freeing up farm animals and the like.

8. ... Or Treat
The treat part of trick-or-treat originated from a 9th century custom called "souling. The "All Souls Day, early Christians would walk door to door asking for" soul cakes ", little squares of bread with currants (yummy). You see, when it was believed that the souls of the dead remained in limbo on earth and that prayers would speed the passage of the soul to heaven. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of deceased relatives of donors.

9. Jack O 'Lantern

An Irish folklore tells the story of a lazy trickster named Jack. Throughout his life he never made a single enemy, nor a single friend, never made an honest day's work or performed a single selfless act for anyone. But despite his laziness and constant state of intoxication, he managed to foil an attempt by the Devil to take his soul.

the number one Halloween Jack was high and the Devil arrived to do its share. Jake was obviously having a pint in the pub and asked the Devil for permission to finish his beer. The Devil agreed and Jack struck up a conversation. He asked: "If you really have power, you could turn into something, right? Even a shilling." The Devil took it as challenge and became a silver coin. Jack grabbed the coin and scratched a cross-shaped scar on his face. The power of the cross, being like kryptonite to Superman, rendered powerless the Devil, and held him prisoner.

Jacks bartered with Satan, he would free him if you would grant another year of life of Jack so that he would have had time to repent. Having little choice, the Devil made it so. A year passed, Jack is Jack, has never managed to get off the bar stool to repent.

Again it is Halloween, but Satan was a no show. Suddenly Jack knew why, Presto-change-o, Jack was dead and standing before the pearly gates. He was about to go to heaven. Ah, but before he had access to get the OK from St. Peter. Check his records, St. Peter Jack thumbs down, boo-hoo, for Jack had never performed a single selfless act. Off to hell Jack would go.

However, Satan was not doing any of this either. It was still checked to get cheated. Having nowhere to go, the Devil gave Jack a burning ember in a hollowed turnip. With only this simple lantern to light his way, rejected by heaven and hell, poor Jack was doomed to wander forever in darkness.

The Irish originally used turnips as their "Jack's lanterns". But in America, pumpkins were easier to come by than turnips. Pumpkins also pulled double duty, symbolizing the giant full moon collection. Thus, man-in-the-moon and trickster Jack combine to form the carved face pumpkins of our Jack O Lantern '.

10. The Great Pumpkin

We have demons and goblins, WHO and whistles of why Halloween is one of our favorite times of the year! Jokes and candy to all of you this Hallow's Eve!

After Halloween what is a holiday destination with a vampire?
Fangsgiving!