Halloween.....\_/

Halloween is a U.S. holiday that has its origins from holidays celticheLa word "Halloween" has far Anglo-Saxon origin , can be traced back to the tradition of the Catholic Church and is probably derived from a contraction of the phrase " All Hallows Eve " which is celebrated on the night of All Saints October 31 , given that in the fifth century BC Celtic in Ireland coincided with the end of summer :

on this occasion - called Samhain ( pronounced soueen ) - the typical colors were orange to commemorate the harvest and thus the end of the summer and black to symbolize the impending darkness of winter .

HOW AND WHERE AND ' BORN THE HALLOWEEN PARTY ?

Legend has it that the wandering spirits of those who died during the year they turn on the night of October 31 in search of a body to possess for the next year . The Celts believed that on this magical night all physical laws that govern space and time were suspended , making it possible for the fusion of the real world and the hereafter.

Of course, the living did not want to be possessed ! Therefore, the village farmers made ​​their homes cold and undesirable extinguishing the fires in the fireplaces and made their bodies masquerading as horrible monsters wandering through the house to run away in fear all the spirits who met !

Another explanation of why the Celts be darkened every fire does not lie in discouraging the possession of their bodies, but in the fact that every home riaccendessero taking the flame from a single giant Druidic fire that was lit in the night of October 31 in the middle of Ireland to Usinach .

The Romans made their Celtic practices . But with the passage of time vanished the fear of being possessed by the spirits and was only the tradition of dressing up .

Halloween was brought to the U.S. in the 1840s by Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine that struck their homeland.

The tradition of " trick-or -treat " - trick or treat want to have originated from the Celts but not from a European practice of the ninth century AD called in English " Souling " we could traddure in Italian as "begging soul." On November 2 , All Saints Day , early Christians were wandering from village to village begging for a little ' " bread of the soul" square-shaped sweet made with raisins (such as our " rosemary bread " ) . Sweetest received more prayers they would promise to dead relatives of the donors. At that time it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after death, and that the prayers also from outsiders could make it quicker passage to heaven.

WHO ' JACK -O- LANTERN ?

WHY 'YOU HOLLOW PUMPKINS ?

The tradition of Jack-o -lantern probably comes from Irish folklore . Legend has it that a man named Jack , known cheater and criminal, tricked Satan challenged him on the night of All Saints to climb a tree whose bark on a cross engraved by trapping him in the branches . Jack made a pact with the devil if he had more temptations that he would come down from the tree. After the death of Jack, the legend goes , he was prevented from entering paradise because of misconduct had in life , but was denied entrance to hell because he had tricked the devil. Satan then handed him a small ember of hell to light the way in the terrible darkness that surrounded him . To last longer than the flame Jack dug a big kohlrabi and I put it inside.

The Irish originally used the kale but when they arrived in the U.S. in 1840 found that American turnips were small, but also that pumpkins were bigger and easier to dig kale . That's why to this day Jack-o -lantern is a carved pumpkin inside which is placed a lantern.