An Easy Teachers Guide On The History Of Halloween
Aug 17th, 2009 by Orson Welles
Have you ever wondered what the history of Halloween is? It is said that on this particular holiday season where it dates back to when the Celtics used to have a celebration called Samhain. The proper wording on how to save this word you would find that it would sound like saying sow in.
Original celebrations began more than 2,000 years ago. The Celtic culture was located in many places, primarily in parts of the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Northern part of France.
The Celtic culture originally started the Halloween traditions by celebrating their New Year. This was the end of harvest time and the beginning of winter. The Celtics held the belief that deaths resulted in winter, so their new year began at the end of warmer months.
The history of Halloween story gets a lot more interesting in that the fact that they believed that on October 31 the barrier that is between the undead world, or spiritual world, and the physical world was at its all-time thinnest.
The Celtics believed that on this evening, the spirits would be walking among the physical world. At this time of year, these spirits would be responsible for damaging crops and wrecking havoc in the lives of mortals.
It wasnt all bad news during Halloween. The Druids (Celtic priests), were busy at work. They were giving future prophesies, and on November 1st many of the Celtics would go for the predictions for the new and upcoming year.
The Celtic community would bring sacrifices in exchange for these predictions. They offered part of their crops and animals in hopes that the gods would give them good luck and wealth for the upcoming year.
According to the history of Halloween while celebrating you would find the people would wear different types of costumes, a lot of the costumes were usually made from various parts of different animals. But now as you see as time is gone by Halloween has experienced a lot of different changes.
Certain cultures celebrated the passing of family members during this time. This developed into a celebration to certain gods for their loved ones.
As more time went by all Saints Day was created by the Catholics so that they could revere the many Saints that passed through on Earth. The history of Halloween is quite an amazing event on how it all started and is very rich and vivid.
Known as All Saints Day as well as All Souls Day among other names, this holiday is known world wide. There is a wealth of information available online and in libraries for finding out a more expansive history of Halloween.
