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Halloween is a traditionally spooky holiday celebrated on October the 31st. It seems to have derived from an ancient Celtic festival and the old traditional Christian holy day , called All Saints. In 1846, during Ireland's widespread famine, many Irish immigrants carried versions of this tradition to North America. The Irish Celts believed that on Halloween, the boundary between the living and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for all that is living ...

On Halloween eve (or Hallow's eve) the ancient Celts used to out a skeleton on their window sill's to represent the departed. Originating in Europe, these lanterns were first carved from a turnip or rutabaga. Believing that the head was the most powerful part of the body, containing the spirit and the knowledge, the Celts used the "head" of the vegetable to frighten off any superstitions that may be lingering.There are also Welsh, Irish and British myths which are are full of legends of the Brazen Head, which could be related to an old folk memory of the ancient Celtic practice of headhunting - the results of which were often nailed to a door lintel or brought inside the house to speak their wisdom by the fireside ...

Halloween is associated with the colors orange and black, and is strongly associated with symbols such as the jack-o'-lantern (see picture opposite). Today Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, scary ghost tours, bonfires, scary costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories, and watching scary horror movies.

Happy Halloween ...