{"id":16028,"date":"2014-10-31T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seryhumano.com\/web\/?p=16028"},"modified":"2014-10-31T10:27:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T14:57:53","slug":"halloween-a-celebration-of-saints-or-a-celebration-of-spooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seryhumano.com\/web\/?p=16028","title":{"rendered":"HALLOWEEN A CELEBRATION OF SAINTS OR A CELEBRATION OF SPOOKS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows Halloween is a festivity that involves people \u2013 mostly children \u2013 disguised as ghosts, ghouls, devils, spooks that wander around the streets at night, knocking the house doors and yell \u201ctrick or treat\u201d, asking for candies, which are placed inside pumpkin-shaped baskets.\u00a0 However, do you really know where the Halloween word comes from?\u00a0 Or do you know its history?\u00a0 Or its origin?<a href=\"https:\/\/seryhumano.com\/web\/?attachment_id=16029\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16029\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16029\" src=\"https:\/\/seryhumano.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/descarga-9.jpg\" alt=\"descarga (9)\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The word <em>Halloween<\/em> originally dates back to about 1745 and it is Christian in origin.\u00a0 The word also means \u201challowed evening\u201d or \u201choly evening.\u201d\u00a0 Halloween began as a pagan festival in Northern Europe where the power of magic was considered to be so potent that ghosts and spirits could make contact with the physical world.\u00a0 It later became a celebration that, in Christian times, was celebrated in the evening before \u201cAll Saints Day\u201d, mostly influenced by Celtic harvest festivals, and where the participants dance, drink, eat and sit together to tell horror stories.\u00a0 The Scottish and the Irish have made too many changes to the expression until it became the word we know today.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Halloween was brought to the United States by Scottish and Irish immigrants, where it became commercial sometime around 1900.\u00a0 Postcards and paper-cut decorations were produced; ghost and ghoul costumes made their appearance in the 1930s, and the custom of screaming \u201ctrick or treat\u201d began in the 1950s.\u00a0 Since then, the festivity became very profitable in terms of costumes, yard decoration, pumpkins, and candy bars.\u00a0 However, Halloween is not an official holiday: businesses and services stay open on regular hours, and transit runs as normal, though drivers should be careful with wandering disguised people at night, especially.<\/p>\n<p>As explained before, Halloween is associated with spooks, ghosts, walking skeletons, witches, wizards, zombies, etc.\u00a0 All of these symbols represent the contact between the spiritual and physical world, between the living and the dead.\u00a0 The most common objects associated to this festivity are blood, gravestones, fire, bones, skulls and, most notably, pumpkins.\u00a0 In fact, these pumpkins are carved with eyes, noses and mouths, and they are used as baskets to pick the candy bars, or as lanterns \u2013 the most popular is the one called the \u201cJack O\u2019Lantern\u201d, a pumpkin that has a candle inside representing the souls of the dead.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Halloween has been spread all over the world.\u00a0 Many countries have embraced it, and some have made it their own.\u00a0 For example, in Poland, people pray out loud as they walk through the forests so that the souls of the dead might find comfort.\u00a0 In Spain, Christian priests toll their church bells in order to remind their congregants to remember the dead.\u00a0 In Canada, especially with Irish immigrants, <em>abstinence <\/em>is observed, where the people don\u2019t eat meat at all; only pancakes or something similar.\u00a0 In Mexico, children make altars to invite <em>angelitos<\/em> (little angels of dead children) to come visit, the Christian Church carries out the <em>Vigil of All Hallows<\/em> or the <em>Vigil of All Saints<\/em> and, after the service, the people go to the cemetery and place candles, flowers and food, and celebrate with their dead ones.\u00a0 In Finland, people go and light \u201cvotive candles\u201d \u2013 small white or yellow candles \u2013 in an act of Christian prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Halloween is on October 31<sup>st<\/sup>.\u00a0 What costume are you going to wear?\u00a0 Are you going to church and pray for your dead loved friends or family relations?\u00a0 What are you going to eat?\u00a0 There is always something interesting to do during that festivity.<\/p>\n<p>So, trick of treat!!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>seryhumano.com \/ By: Luis Miguel Ramos<br \/>\nFuentes: HALLOWEEN.\u00a0 Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.<br \/>\nHALLOWEEN IN UNITED STATES.\u00a0 Timeanddate.co<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows Halloween is a festivity that involves people \u2013 mostly children \u2013 disguised as ghosts, ghouls, devils, spooks that wander around the streets at night, knocking the house doors and yell \u201ctrick or treat\u201d, asking for candies, which are placed inside pumpkin-shaped baskets.\u00a0 However, do you really know where the Halloween word comes from?\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":16033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-16028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultura","tag-slider","category-122","description-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HALLOWEEN A CELEBRATION OF SAINTS OR A CELEBRATION OF SPOOKS?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Everybody knows Halloween is a festivity that involves people \u2013 mostly children \u2013 disguised as ghosts, ghouls, devils, spooks that wander around the streets at night, knocking the house doors and yell \u201ctrick or treat\u201d, asking for candies, which are placed inside pumpkin-shaped baskets. 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