All Hallows Eve

Today, Halloween to us means throwing awesome costume parties, giving candy out to children, decorating our houses with frightening monsters and creatures such as Frankenstein, Mummies, Witches, Zombies, Werewolves, etc. Halloween is also the one time a year when we can be whatever or whoever we want to be. We celebrate, act silly and just have fun. But with all the chaos and superstitions about Halloween we wonder occasionally what is Halloween? What is its orgin? How did it come to be? Halloween was originally a pagan holiday known for honoring the dead and was originally referred to as "All Hallows Eve" and dates back to almost 2000 years. All Hallows Eve was designed by Christians in order to convert Pagans and it is celebrated on Nov 1st known as All Saints day. Today's Halloween (modern) wast was invented by the Irish Celtics their festival of "Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture" The Gaels believed that on October 31st the worlds of the living and dead will overlap and the dead will resurrect and cause chaos on certain crops. Costumes were worn as a way to impersonate evil spirits or soothe them. Eventually, the Romans took over the Celtic land and several of the Celtic traditions and festivities were incorporated into the Roman culture. A Roman festival Feralia which is usually celebrated in late October by the Romans for the recently deceased and the celebration of the Roman Goddess Pomona, who is the goddess of fruit. The tradition of bobbing for apples is originated from the Roman Goddess Pomona.