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Happy Halloween I – the origin of Halloween
At first, let's talk about the origin of the word "Halloween": many nations on the eve of Halloween will be a meeting of celebration, which is also called "All Hallow lived", "Toussaint's Eve," Halloween lived, or "The eve of" All Saints Day and the last was developed as a convention into "Halloween" in Chinese is called " Halloween. "
Halloween is an annual celebration, but in reality is a celebration of? And how this peculiar custom come from? Is it, as some claim, a kind of demon worship? Or is it just a harmless vestige of some ancient pagan ritual?
In the Middle Ages, central Europe had a history of the demolition of the heathen, but the ceremony of sacrifice before the New Year's Eve has never been inclined, in fact, and published as an assistant. Therefore, in hallowmas today, we are still familiar with witches' broom, black cats and curses.
Halloween is one of the oldest festivals whose origins date back thousands of years. The celebration we know as Halloween has had many influences from many cultures for centuries. From Roman Pomona Day, to the Celtic celebration of Samhain, to the Christian holidays of All Saints and All Souls days.
Hundreds of years in what is now Great Britain and Northern France, lived the Celts. The Celts worshiped nature and had many gods, the god of the sun his favorite. It was "he" who commanded their work and rest time, and made the beautiful land and grow crops.
The word itself, "Halloween" has its origins in the Catholic Church. It comes from a corruption of All Hallows Eve contracts. November 1, "All Hollows Day" (or "All Santos "), Day is a celebration in honor of Catholic saints. But in the fifth century BC in Celtic Ireland, summer officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (sow-en), the Celtic New Year.
One story goes that on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who died in the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year. It is believed that their only hope for eternal life. The Celts believed that all laws of space and time were suspended during this time, allow the mind to the world mingle with the living.
Naturally, those who still live do not want to be possessed. If the night of October 31, villagers fire in their homes to make them cold and undesirable. Then, dressed in costumes macabre of all types and noisily paraded around the neighborhood, is as destructive as possible in order to scare away spirits looking for bodies to possess.
It is likely that a better explanation why the Celts extinguished their fires was not to discourage spirit possession, but for all the Celtic tribes could return to light their fires from a common source, the Druidic fire that burned in the center of Ireland, Usinach.
Some stories tell of how the Celts burn someone the problem was thought to have been possessed, as a kind of lesson to the spirits. Other accounts of Celtic history debunk these stories as myth.
The Romans adopted the Celtic practices as their own. But in the first century AD, Samhain was associated with the celebration of some of the other Roman traditions that took place in October as their day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple, which might explain the origin of our modern tradition of bobbing for apples on Halloween.
As for the origin of Halloween, The Legend more objective, since Halloween is on the old Western Europe before the birth of Christ, which mainly includes Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The first Western Europeans have also been called Celtic Druids. The date of the year people New Celtic Druids November 1, and New Year's Eve, young people were gathered on a druid and bring different masks strange, carved lamps made from horseradish and wandered among peoples.
Push practices also changed over time to become more ritualized. As belief in spirit possession declined, the practice of dressing up as elves, ghosts, witches and took a ceremonial role.
This is necessary to explain that the lamp is a custom pumpkin published recently, and there is no pumpkin in the former Western Europe. In fact, Halloween is a ceremony celebrating the fall harvest, and has also been declared as "ghost one day" is a legend says that the souls of those who died in the year will again see the world, so people should stop living the soul back to see the landscape of their crops and a dinner abundant. Therefore, all needfire and lamps were used to frighten the empire souls of ghosts and at the same time to light the way back to the ghosts and bring them back.
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