It is believed that Halloween was originally a Celtic festival of Samhain, which was celebrated in Ireland and Scotland at harvest time known for over a thousand years. Samhain was the time of completion of the campaign (31 October), and animals were collected from summer pastures, the protective cover for the winter months. At Samhain, celebrated a great feast, and the fruits, vegetables, grains and animals were burned as a gift to the gods in huge bonfires in hope of a new successYear. It was believed that the night of Samhain, the dead walk among the living and the dead that the living could ask questions about the coming year. Why do you think that some of these spirits were evil, wearing clothes with animal heads, in order to frighten the spirits and protect themselves.
Christianity spread through the Celtic countries, and in the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV November 1 said at All Saints, also known as "All Hallow's Day" St.with reference to those sacred. All Saints was celebrated on saints and martyrs of Christianity. And 'generally accepted that this was an attempt to reduce the popular holiday Celtic Christianity and the importance of Celtic ritual and the influence of their spiritual leader, the Druids. This is also the way the day was as All Hallow's Eve, or Halloween. All Soul's Day was also in Christianity a few hundred years later, to celebrateDead.
Carving out turnips and lighting them goes back hundreds of years ago with the holiday. An Irish legend tells of a man named Jack who tricks the devil in a coin and keeps him from changing back from them in the cross next to a coin. A year later, Jack dies, but is not allowed in heaven or hell, he must wander the earth. In 1800 brought Halloween to the United States with Irish immigrants. Pumpkins were carved rather than turnips because they are larger and moreabundant.
