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- During World War II and after, the celebration returned to Europe when, for example, US soldiers stationed in Germany celebrated Halloween. However, it didn't exactly catch on with Germans at the time. The celebration became more interesting when it spilled over into European culture through films and TV series.
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Aug 5, 2022 · With the influx of American tourists and expats, Halloween has and is gaining popularity in Europe, and many of the bigger European cities celebrate Halloween with special spooky events and tours, costume parties, fun, and merriment.
Oct 19, 2018 · While Americans don't usually emphasize Halloween's Celtic roots, the holiday's ancient, Pagan forebear ― Samhain ― is still celebrated in Scotland and on the Isle of Man, one of the British...
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Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago, mostly in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a ti...
On May 13, A.D. 609, Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Pantheonin Rome in honor of all Christian martyrs, and the Catholic feast of All Martyrs Day was established in the Western church. Pope Gregory III later expanded the festival to include all saints as well as all martyrs, and moved the observance from May 13 to November 1. By the 9th century, the...
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Borrowing from European traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today’s “trick-or-treat” tradition. Young women believed that on Halloween they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or mirrors....
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Speaking of commercial success, scary Halloween movieshave a long history of being box office hits. Classic Halloween movies include the “Halloween” franchise, based on the 1978 original film directed by John Carpenter and starring Donald Pleasance, Nick Castle, Jamie Lee Curtis and Tony Moran. In “Halloween,” a young boy named Michael Myers murder...
The American Halloween tradition of trick-or-treating probably dates back to the early All Souls’ Day parades in England. During the festivities, poor citizens would beg for food and families would give them pastries called “soul cakes” in return for their promise to pray for the family’s dead relatives. The distribution of soul cakes was encourage...
Halloween has always been a holiday filled with mystery, magic and superstition. It began as a Celtic end-of-summer festival during which people felt especially close to deceased relatives and friends. For these friendly spirits, they set places at the dinner table, left treats on doorsteps and along the side of the road and lit candles to help lov...
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The Celtic festival of Samhain was traditionally held on November 1, and was a celebration to mark the end of the harvest and the welcoming in of the darker days of winter. Because this festival began on the night before, October 31, it’s a strong contender for the original Halloween.
Oct 5, 2019 · Between the ancient Roman Feralia, which commemorates the passing of the dead, and the Celtic Samhain, which celebrates the end of the harvest season, it's easy to see how the Halloween we knew today could have moved from Europe to the U.S. with immigrants.
