Halloween has been sublime for hundreds of years, but what are the hypothesize or reasons behind this celebration. In order to find out just why this day is sublime each year, let's start with where did Halloween come from and who started these celebrations of Halloween.
Earliest recognition of Halloween is said to have begun by the Celtics while the 5th century. It was started by these ancient population as a means of celebrating the new year which started on November 1. The night before the new year began, October 31, was carefully a sacred night because, it was said the dead and the alive could cross boundaries into each other's world. This holiday was named Samhain, the Celtic new year. This holiday officially marked the end of summer and the harvest season. This also marked the beginning of winter, which was view as the start of a hard and hazardous weather.
Boy Halloween Costumes
The priests for the Celtics called Druids, were responsible for holding ceremonies that made sacrificial offerings to the deities for purposes of holding the bad weather to a minimal. while these celebratory celebrations the Druid minister would start large bonfires and offered up sacrifices of animals in order to assure themselves of pleasing the gods and having good weather. while this period of celebrating population would dress out in costumes made from animal skins and heads. population would use this time to become fortune tellers and try to predict the time to come of those who sought to know. While these ceremonies were religious in nature, population still took on the superstitious traditions that followed along with these ceremonies.
Over the policy of years Halloween has come under the affect of many more cultures that added their own identity to this day. When the Romans came into power they took this holiday of the Celtics and incorporated two of their own festivals into this one. These two festivals known as Feralis and Pomona were held in October and became infused into the already traditions of the Celts. Pomona the goddess of fruit and trees was one of the gods to whom the Romans prayed for bountiful fruit and trees. It is said that the fastener for Pomona is the apple and the tradition of bobbing for apples was started because of this. The Catholics also added their own infusion into this day of festivities and sacrifice. This day called "All Saints Day" or "All Hollows Day" was on November! and is said to honor the Catholic saints. There are many influences from separate cultures that brought us to what Halloween is today.
Today population still celebrate Halloween by wearing costumes and having parties with games like bobbing for apples and having the best costume contest. Halloween does not have the same ritualistic religious ceremony that it started as those many years ago.
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