Thread: history of Halloween, do you know?

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Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century including Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom as well as of Australia and New Zealand.

In that night, many people wear horrible or strange dress to attend party and trick or treat other people, many people love such kind of holiday.

What do you wear at that night, have you also attend the party to have a joy?

You could even push this thread back to the Celts and Samhain. It's amazing what elements have coalesced to create the holiday we all know and love.

As a yard haunter I don't really attend the house parties, but a bunch of us do get together to attend local haunted houses, our own party of sorts. Halloween night I no longer don a costume as it always seems to get in the way of working my haunt, repairing/tweaking props, etc. Whatever costume I start the night with seems to be missing key elements by the time I'm done. I've got to figure out a great costume that allows freedom of movement that has minimal accessories ...... Hmmm ......

It uh.... I, or "we" I guess..... I mean, you know... Yeah! Yeah, I think so!

Originally Posted by halloweeny78

You could even push this thread back to the Celts and Samhain. It's amazing what elements have coalesced to create the holiday we all know and love.

As a yard haunter I don't really attend the house parties, but a bunch of us do get together to attend local haunted houses, our own party of sorts. Halloween night I no longer don a costume as it always seems to get in the way of working my haunt, repairing/tweaking props, etc. Whatever costume I start the night with seems to be missing key elements by the time I'm done. I've got to figure out a great costume that allows freedom of movement that has minimal accessories ...... Hmmm ......

well, i think it is hard to figure out a great costume that allows freedom of movement that has minimal accessories,but i wish you could!

well, can you tell me the meaning of your post,thank you!

Being a Halloween enthusiast Ive read several books, watched many a history programs on the true history of what we now call Halloween. As have many of the members on here. My problem, is that there is such a long history, and influences from different cultures, I myself often find it difficult to keep it all straight from the ancient beginnings to the modern traditions. But it is a great, fun, scary, and educational history and brings such a feeling of tradition to the holiday for those of us that celebrate it.