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<p>The origin of Halloween dates back to the traditions of the peoples who inhabited Gaul and the islands of Great Britain between the years 600 BC and 800 AD, but with marked differences in relation to current pumpkins or the famous phrase “Gostosuras or treat”, exported by United States, that a popular celebration. Originally, Halloween was not the relationship with witches. It was a festival of Irish Celtic calendar, the festival of Samhain, between October 30 and November 2 and marked the end of the summer (Samhain literally means “end of summer” in the Celtic language). </p><p>

The pagan origin has to do with the Celtic celebration called Samhain, which had as objective to give worship to the dead. The invasion of the British Isles by the Romans (46 BC) ended up mixing the culture with Latin Celtic, with just thin it with time. At the end of the century II, with the evangelization of these areas, the religion of the Celts, called druidismo had already disappeared in most communities. Little is known about the religion of the druids, because not said anything about it: everything was transmitted orally from generation to generation. You know that the festivities of Samhain was celebrated quite possibly between days 5 and 7 November (half way between the equinox and summer solstice and the winter). They were preceded by a series of celebrations that lasted a week and gave Celtic started the new year. A “feast of the dead” was one of the most important dates, as celebrated for what we would be “heaven and earth” (concepts that only came with Christianity). To the Celts, the place of the dead was a place of perfect happiness, where there would be no hunger or pain. The festival was celebrated with rites presided by priests druids, who acted as “mediums” between people and their ancestors. Currenlty halloween festival become widedly celebrated with all types of hallwoeen costumes for kids and adults.It also said that the spirits of the dead returned on that date to visit their former homes and drive their families into the other world.</p>

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It was a feast of small groups of Catholic faithful, which is enormously popular with the arrival of the Irish around 1840. It was they who added the “O’lantern Jack” (hollow pumpkin with a candle inside), because the words “Jack the stingy”. </p>
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The party, however, did not begin to take place en masse until 1921. That year was held the first Halloween parade in Minnesota and then was followed by other states. The internationalization of Halloween was in the late’70s and early’80s thanks to the movies and television series. In 1978, premiering in the U.S. and the world of Halloween Night, from John Carpenter, a film set on the eve of All Saints which was a reference to horror films of series B, with countless sequels and imitations. On the other hand, hits the small screen as The Simpsons began to devote a chapter each year to make Halloween pumpkin smiling in a picture so well known as Coca-Cola.  </p>
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Today Halloween is one of the most important dates in the holiday calendar in the Americas (United States and Canada, Latin America, although aware of the festival of Halloween, have their own traditions and festivities that day, which strangely coincide in their meaning: a union or extreme closeness of the world of the living and the realm of the dead). In the Old Continent, in a strange twist of fate, many cities in which young people have decided to import the United States of Halloween, with parties and halloween costumes, although in some places in Europe (like England), the original festival has taken root again, emerging from oblivion to which the Vatican had sent back centuries and perform the same rituals that were practiced then. </p>