Interesting facts about Halloween (Halloween)

What do we know about the holiday of Halloween, which in our country has become officially celebrated only a little more than a decade ago? The black and orange colors, sink 31 October and 1 November pumpkins and lanterns, costumes and masks, joy and horror, "Trick or treat!" - Roughly the Association arise when we think about the holiday Halloween. In fact, the 2,000 years of its existence, the festival has managed to acquire numerous legends, stories, traditions, and even names. For example, few people know that in some countries it is called the Day of the Reformation, the Celtic New Year, the Day of the Dead and t.d.

Americans who began to celebrate Halloween more than a hundred years ago, consider it the most cheerful costumed festivals, which are waiting for both adults and children, perhaps even more than Christmas or the New Year. Since ancient times, the Celts began to celebrate this holiday with religious overtones, seeing the bright side of the year (summer), and meeting his dark side (winter) .

Traditionally, Halloween is celebrated around the campfire, singing and dancing, as well as with scary stories and legends about spirits, sorcerers, witches and all other evil spirits. Currently, commercial approach to celebrating any occasion led to the fact that in many countries has become a holiday Halloween candy that children beg their neighbors, changing clothes in carnival costumes. According to statistics, every year on Halloween candy sold and other sweets for more than 2 billion dollarov.

In some countries, especially for the Halloween pumpkins are cultivated giant varieties, as demand for the vegetable garden at the feast is great, because everyone wants to own hands to cut the most original pumpkin lantern and put it outside my window, so he drove home from evil spirits.

No wonder that for its 2000-year history of the holiday Halloween has accumulated in its arsenal so many amazing and original, and sometimes even ridiculously absurd facts. For example, the most common facts about Halloween are: - Practice bonfire on the night of Halloween is almost universally thing of the past, fires were replaced by light bulbs, decorating them doma.

But the scary costumes and masks accompany this holiday for over 2000 years, although more and more participants in the gay carnival you can not see the vampire teeth or witch wigs, costumes and clowns, princesses and sexy kitties. - For the tradition of celebrating Halloween in North America are responsible European immigrants, who in turn borrowed it from the Celts.

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