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Like all pagan festival, it is interesting to understand the origin of the Halloween party or Halloween.
The birth of this celebration is very backward in time.
For the Celts, the end of the year came with the end of summer, which coincides with the end of October in our calendar. On that date Samhain celebrated the end of the harvest ".
In their beliefs, they assumed that with the coming end of year the spirits of the dead would come to occupy the bodies of the living and take his belongings. Continue reading
why their world trying to look like the world of the dead were dressing and makeup as the deceased were assumed. Decorated with bones, dark cloth and ashes home, so that the spirits would be confused and to continue long.
is said that even performing animals and even human sacrifices to appease the dead.
Other beliefs-where is "treat or trick" is that the spirits were begging for food and if not given, were spells and curses. The Celts then left food and candles outside their homes. The candle was to light the way to the dead.
The Romans, when they took Celtic lands, they adapted the celebration with their own Roman holiday crops. That is where fruits and vegetables.
The tradition spread throughout medieval Europe.
Christianity, between 700 and 800, tried to adapt to the pagan festivals and established the All Souls Day on 31 October and All Saints Day on 1 November.

With the arrival of the Irish to North America in the seventeenth century, the tradition comes the new continent, where it mixes with other Indian customs. Only in
the 70s and 80s of the twentieth century the feast was "sold", but its origins have much to do with other popular festivals of the dead and the day that the meeting between the two worlds is possible.
Latin America is generally unknown in the European origin of the Halloween party and is associated with the American people. In some countries, conflicts with their own festivals of the dead, for example in Mexico where the celebration of the dead is very popular, is performed on 2 November, and is completely different.

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