Halloween what is celebrated

Turn that couch into a den, grab some popcorn, and cosy up. With Netflix's 'You' also set to be released on October 15th, you might choose to wait and enjoy it's binge-worthiness on the 31st. But if the thought of socialising after lockdown still has you spooked, you can always set up a Zoom with friends to celebrate instead.

The tradition of celebrating Halloween dates back to the Celtic festival Samhain, where people lit bonfires and wore costumes to warn off ghosts.

They believed that on the night before the new year, ghosts returned to earth and the boundary between the living and the dead was blurred. The tradition was brought to America in the second half of the 19th Century and has since turned into the holiday we are familiar with today. Jump directly to the content. The candy-grabbing concept also became mainstream in the U. As for the costumes, they evolved, too. While they began as earnest tributes to saints, that tradition likely fell out of favor at some point…until young Scottish and Irish pranksters got the idea to dress up in scary-looking garb again as a way to spook unsuspecting neighbors.

And just like that, thanks to these local hooligans, Halloween costumes became scary, spooky, funny, and creative all at the same time. By the s and s, Halloween had become a secular but community-centered holiday, with parades and town-wide Halloween parties as the featured entertainment. Despite the best efforts of many schools and communities, vandalism began to plague some celebrations in many communities during this time.

By the s, town leaders had successfully limited vandalism and Halloween had evolved into a holiday directed mainly at the young. Due to the high numbers of young children during the fifties baby boom, parties moved from town civic centers into the classroom or home, where they could be more easily accommodated.

Between and , the centuries-old practice of trick-or-treating was also revived. Trick-or-treating was a relatively inexpensive way for an entire community to share the Halloween celebration.

In theory, families could also prevent tricks being played on them by providing the neighborhood children with small treats. Thus, a new American tradition was born, and it has continued to grow. Speaking of commercial success, scary Halloween movies have a long history of being box office hits.

A sequel to that—"Halloween Kills," the twelfth film in the "Halloween" franchise overall—was released in Halloween has always been a holiday filled with mystery, magic and superstition.

It began as a Celtic end-of-summer festival during which people felt especially close to deceased relatives and friends. For these friendly spirits, they set places at the dinner table, left treats on doorsteps and along the side of the road and lit candles to help loved ones find their way back to the spirit world. We avoid crossing paths with black cats, afraid that they might bring us bad luck.

This idea has its roots in the Middle Ages, when many people believed that witches avoided detection by turning themselves into black cats.

We try not to walk under ladders for the same reason. This superstition may have come from the ancient Egyptians, who believed that triangles were sacred it also may have something to do with the fact that walking under a leaning ladder tends to be fairly unsafe. And around Halloween, especially, we try to avoid breaking mirrors, stepping on cracks in the road or spilling salt. Many of these obsolete rituals focused on the future instead of the past and the living instead of the dead.

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 each of her suitors and then toss the nuts into the fireplace.

In some versions of this legend, the opposite was true: The nut that burned away symbolized a love that would not last. Another tale had it that if a young woman ate a sugary concoction made out of walnuts, hazelnuts and nutmeg before bed on Halloween night she would dream about her future husband. 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.

Mattheew Feb 22, 0 Mattheew Feb 20, 0 Mattheew Feb 2, 0 Mattheew Mar 1, 0 Lahore Qalandars. But whether you celebrate on the Saturday or risk the Monday morning hangover, there are plenty of ways to get spooky. Kids around the world will be choosing their favourite fancy dress character and going door to door for trick-or-treating.

But there are many ways you can feel the fear factor and get into the Halloween spirit as an adult too. With nightclubs open after 18 months of closure, many will be headed out to themed nights, and testing out scary make-up looks and costumes. If clubbing isn't for you how about a scary movie marathon? Turn that couch into a den, grab some popcorn, and cosy up. With Netflix's 'You' also set to be released on October 15th, you might choose to wait and enjoy it's binge-worthiness on the 31st.