Information about Halloween

Halloween is a annual holiday that falls on October 31st of every year. Common activities include trick-or-treating, carving faces in pumpkins, bonfires, costume parties, visting haunted attractions like haunted houses. The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even.

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that "some folkorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast if Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds,or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin". The name of the festival historically kept by the Gaels and celts in the British Isles which is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end".

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