5 Very Interesting Facts About Halloween
Halloween is all about letting your inner fun demonic side out; you can be as whacky and creepy and crazy as you want to be. Dress up, dress down, dance like crazy or just be a part of some parade and walk the streets. This huge holiday entails some very interesting facts. Here are 5 such facts about Halloween.
1. What’s in a name?
Halloween is known by a lot of names : All Hallows’ Eve, Samhain, All Hallow Tide, The Feast of the Dead, Hallowe’en, Hallow Even, All Saints Eve, El Dia de os Muertos. Legend associates it with witches and ghosts, cats, Irish, Americans, Goblins. There is a legend for every one of these associations, from Wiccan to Christianity, this festival dates back 2000 years.
2. Take me to the candy shop
Even after all sorts of candies are out there in the market, candies which have chocolate as their major component remains the first choice of kids who go out for trick or treating. Trick or treating, when the custom originated, was about performing a little something for the one giving away the candy.
3. One, Two, Three, Four!
Halloween is an amalgam of many customs across many religions – The Roman Feralia festival, which honors the dead; the Roman Pomona festival, that celebrates the goddess of fruits and trees, the Celtic festival Samuin that stands for summer’s end; and the Catholic Hallowmas period of All Souls’ Day and the Day of the Saints.
