Thursday, 10 November 2011

The Halloween

Halloween is a Christian festival which comes in the thirty first of October every year.
This festival has an old rout in history, It was a ceremony for Celts tribes in Britain before centuries, they were believed that their god (Saween) calls the dead souls in this day to arrange it in human bodies they choose it, They were believed there are no barriers between dead world and their world, Therefore, Celts people were getting out from their homes and turning fires off to make these home uncomfortable for souls, Then, They were going to the wilderness and spending the night in it with masks to fear the souls.
This ceremony was one of many ethnical ceremonies celebrated in Europe before the Christianity for many centuries, Therefore, The Vatican had changed these ceremonies - Including Halloween – into Christian festivals.
This festival has many things can be done in it, People put pumpkin on doors – They were using draw in Europe – this tradition is a revival of an old story about a man had been given a lamp in a draw by the devil, and children knock every door and ask (Candy or trick?), It is better for everyone to give them candies or they will bother you, There was another habit in Europe that people were begging (souls cake) from rich people, If you were generous with them they pray for your dead people, And if you were not they will damn you.    
    
    

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