What do people do to celebrate Halloween?
On Halloween, children love to dress up as a skeleton, a witch, or a ghost and ring the bells asking people « Trick or Treat » « some candy or a spell ». Halloween is also a celebration for adults. Adults often organize disguised parties. Usually, we like to visit the haunted house, decorate the house, watch horror movies or decorate pumpkins with the remake of Jack o Lantern.
The Jack o Lantern is one of the best known symbols of Halloween. Originally, in Ireland and Scotland, the population used rutabagas, but the migrant refugees in the United States replaced them with the pumpkin whose harvest is in full swing in October.
Halloween: the Origins
Halloween is the foundation of a Celtic festival in Samhain that dates back more than 2,500 years and is considered as the ancestor of Halloween.
It celebrated the end of the year and the beginning of the New Year.
At that time, Irish and Scottish migrants settled on the New Continent to escape the Great Famine in Ireland, bringing with them their tales and legends.
Since then, Halloween has been celebrated in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and Great Britain.
This celebration was exported to the United States by the Irish in the 19th century, but it became the party that we know today in the mid-19th century.
By Ugo and Baptiste
