The Origin Of Halloween

As the leaves turn vibrant autumn theme, temperatures drop to chill, and you start to pull out sweaters and jackets. Yes, it is time to deck out your porch with pumpkins and carve. Halloween is just around the corner!

Trick or Treat? Do you really know about The origin of Halloween?

The Fackin' English will show you now!

 


ANCIENT ORIGINS OF HALLOWEEN

Halloween is celebrated on October 31, an evening of fun-filled with costumes, spooky treats, trick-or-treating, Halloween party games, and (for adults only) boozy Halloween cocktails.

Halloween is thought to have roots in Christian beliefs and practices.

Turning to Halloween's origins date, we would mention the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago, mostly in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their New Year on November 1.

This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter. The Celtic believed the time of year was often associated with human death, which is explained by the cruel weather change, fewer food resources and warm keeper equipment, and lack of medical care and treatment knowledge. Then, the night before the New Year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.

 

WHAT HALLOWEEN MEANS -- BOO! MEANING IN ETYMOLOGY 

The word Halloween or Hallowe'en (Saints' evening) is of Christian origin, and a term equivalent to "All Hallows Eve" is attested in Old English. The word Halloween comes from the Scottish form of All Hallows' Eve (the evening before All Hallows' Day): even is the Scots term for "eve" or "evening" and is contracted to e'en or een

(All) Hallow(s) E(v)en became Hallowe'en.

 

SYMBOLS OF HALLOWEEN

Jack-o'-lanterns are traditionally carried by guisers on All Hallows' Eve in order to frighten evil spirits. Along with Jack-o'-lanterns, trick-or-treating is the most favorite activity to celebrate Halloween. Pranks, parties, costumes, and "soul cakes" are all festive gatherings. Then, with skeletons and black cats, the holiday incorporated scary beings such as ghosts, witches, and vampires into the celebration. We might say smiling, and happy vibes are vital to join the feast.

 

For exciting information for young ladies, Halloween is a good time for fortunetelling. These obsolete rituals focused on the future instead of the past and the living instead of the dead. Lesser-Known Rituals are Halloween Matchmaking and finding out the future partner predictions.

In particular, many had to do with helping young women identify their future husbands and reassuring them that they would someday—with luck, by next Halloween—be married. In 18th-century Ireland, a matchmaking cook might bury a ring in her mashed potatoes on Halloween night, hoping to bring true love to the diner who found it.

In Scotland, fortune-tellers recommended that an eligible young woman name a hazelnut for her suitors and then toss the nuts into the fireplace. Rather than popping or exploding the story, the nut that burned to ashes represented the girl's future husband. (In some versions of this legend, the opposite was true: The nut that burned away symbolized a love that would not last.)

Another tale was that if a young woman ate a sugary concoction made of walnuts, hazelnuts, and nutmeg before bed on Halloween night, she would dream about her future husband.

Young women tossed apple peels over their shoulders. They believe the peels would fall on the floor in the shape of their future husband's initials. One more way to learn about their futures is by peering at egg yolks floating in a bowl of water, standing in front of mirrors in darkened rooms, holding candles, and looking over their shoulders for their husbands' faces.

Other rituals were more competitive. At some Halloween parties, the first guest to find a burr on a chestnut hunt would be the first to marry. At others, the first successful apple bobber would be the first down the aisle.

 

Boo! We just got through The origin of Halloween. Do you get some scary costumes for the following Monday?

 

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