Halloween will be celebrated around the world on 31st October, Friday!
There are two theories about why Halloween is celebrated that people believe in. One is that it originated from the ancient Celtic Festival of Samhain. Celts believed it was the day when the boundary between living and dead was blurred! Later, it started getting associated with All Saints' Eve, a day on which Christians remember and honor the dead.
Halloween costumes are frequently created to resemble eerie and mysterious creatures. Costumes typically depict creatures like zombies, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, skeletons, witches, goblins, trolls, devils, etc.; more recently, science fiction-inspired characters like superheroes and aliens have also been popular.
In most of the US, Halloween falls around the harvest season. During this season, Scarecrow, Pitchforks, Corn are the face of farms, and naturally have been a symbol for Halooween since 1900s.
Yes, the ritual of treak-and-treating is widely spread in the USA! Generally speaking, older kids, youngsters, and teens should start their trick-or-treating around 8 or 9 p.m., while smaller trick-or-treaters are urged to go around sunset or earlier.
