Halloween originated as a pagan festival in parts of Northern Europe, particularly around what is now the United Kingdom. Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is a time when magic is most potent and spirits can make contact with the physical world. In Christian times, it became a celebration of the evening before All Saints’ Day. Immigrants from Scotland and Ireland brought the holiday to the United States.
The commercialization of Halloween started in the 1900s, when postcards and die-cut paper decorations were produced. Halloween costumes started to appear in stores in the 1930s and the custom of ‘trick-or-treat’ appeared in the 1950s. The types of products available in Halloween style increased with time. Now Halloween is a very profitable holiday for the manufacturers of costumes, yard decorations and candy.
Birdy Lywak
Halloween is not what it use to be…
Nigel R
Samhain is not October 31st.
It is a ‘cross quarter day’, meaning the day marking the half way between the Equinox and Solstice. This date is the 7th of November.
Samhain is not new year.
A year is the journey of the sun, the length of days wax and weign throughout the year. The date it begins to wax is the winter solstice, that date is the 21st of December. Actually it’s the 25th, as the sun reaches it’s lowest on the solstice, then is born again (rises 1 degree of arc) on Christmas day.
Lee O
Halloween is still a pagan holiday..
If People would realize what was actually going on with these secret societies and these people that worship Lucifer and Satan ….
look around you…
EVIL prevails…
it used to be pretty innocent… though still pagan
holiday..
but there’s nothing innocent about it today.