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History of Halloween is inspired through traditions that have come over from one generation to another. We all follow them like our parents and grandparents. Sometimes it leaves us puzzled with its colored faces. And we love to explore more about it. Hence, lets dive into the History of Halloween and unfurl the age-old veil of mysticism draped into it.
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This History of Halloween dates back to the Celtic Festival called Samhain. The Celtic people celebrated their New Year on November 1st marking the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of bleak, cold winter. This winter time is often associated with the human death.
Celts believed that a night before the New Year, the boundary between the world of the living and the dead became dimmed and foggy. And it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. Moreover, apart from causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts believed that these creatures of the other world made it easier for Druids or Celtic priests to predict future. Hence, to mark the ceremony, Druids built bonfires and people burnt crops and animals as a sacrifice to the Celtic deities.
By 43 A.D., two festivals of Roman people were united with the Celtic Samhain. One was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans commemorated the passing of the dead and the other to honor Pomona-the Roman Goddess of fruit and trees. By the 800s, the Christianity AND Pope designated November 1st as the All Saints' Day. The celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmass and the night before it, the night of Samhain, began to be called All-hallows Eve and hence, Halloween.
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