

This festivity is celebrated on October 31st. When the evening falls — you know it’s time to put on your masks! Because the night is going to be scary and it’s better to scare than being scared! The holiday itself is also called All Hallows’ Eve. Halloween’s history comes from the ancient religion of the Celtic tribes.The Celts had faith in the spirit world and worshipped nature. They believed that at the end of summer, Samhain, the god of death, becomes more powerful and overpowers the god of the sun, Belenus. This day, Samhain brings together all the undead and evil spirits by opening the gates between this world and other ones, much darker ones.

On this day people wore masks or other disguises and blackened their faces to pass unnoticed by the spirits. This arose from the belief that ghosts or spirits cannot see their own reflection. And if a goblin or demon saw another creature looking suitably horrible, they would not touch it. Perhaps.

After the Romans conquered Britain in 61 A.D., they brought their own harvest festival with them, held on November 1. The festival was to honor Pomona, the goddess of fruitful abundance. Over the years, the two festivals got mixed up and became one long holiday. The Celtic conception of ghosts and witches became blended with Roman and later Christian customs. In the USA, before Halloween also comes a Mischief Night, celebrated on 30th of October. This is the night when people prank each other.
These days, Halloween is a pretty much bright festival with kids wearing costumes and go trick–or–treating. Many of them carve jack–a–lanterns out of pumpkins. Fortune telling and storytelling about ghosts and witches are popular activities as well. Also, the great number of horror movies and video game releases usually fall on this holiday, plus Universal Studios even hold their own Halloween Horror Nights in LA, Orlando and Singapore weeks before actual Halloween to entertain people.

People once believed that there were many ghosts and witches on the Earth and that they met on this day to worship the Devil. Today, people do not believe in supernatural but like to have fun and celebrate.
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