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Thursday, 4 November 2010

Halloween celebration


It is an annual celebration from 2000 years ago, before Christianity, in the past was celebrated by the tribes of Gaul and was intended to reflect on life and death, they also look to the date of 31 October and is the date of the celebration of every year as if section halves the year like light and darkness.
The tribes of Celtic called Halloween, it was Samhain, represents the final harvest for farmers, so the celebration on Oct. 31 the purpose and means of correlation between the human and the Earth. In addition, to the belief that the night of 31 October that the ghosts of the dead were able to mingle with the living, also after   Christian come, it was a ceremony at Celtic is a combination between the old practices of  Catholic Romanian ancient popular traditions and religious rituals, and   31 of October is the line between autumn and winter, a time of celebration and  wore fashion to ward off ghosts, also the celebration to appease the gods and to ensure that the sun would rise up again, among the things that  people used in the ceremony is the Lanterns of the pumpkin and the game pick up apples by mouth, it was old  Romans habit because the Romans who ruled most of the land of Celtic, and therefore mixing the Roman festival honoring Pomona a god of the Romans, the apple trees is the symbol of Pomona with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain.
Start the celebration of Halloween in America with European immigrants in 1700 and Celtic Halloween traditions in 1840 by Irish immigrants.
Christianity came and concluded people from the worship of idols, and believing spirits and ghosts, but at present the goal of the celebration is to increase sales in markets and shops of the total increase in profits, including companies producing and advertising companies and advertising.

1 comment:

  1. This is a good summary of the history of the celebration and why it is so popular today

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