Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween I – The Origin of Halloween
At first, let's talk about the origins of the word "Halloween": many of the nations on the eve Halloween will held a celebration meeting, also known as All Hallow e'en "," The Eve of All Hallows ',' Hallow e'en "Or" The eve of All Saintas' Day ", and the latter has developed into a treaty in" Halloween ", in Chinese we call it" the Halloween night.
Halloween is an annual celebration, but what is it actually a celebration of? And how did this peculiar custom originate? Is it, as some claim, a kind of demon worship? Or is it just a harmless vestige of a pagan ritual?
In the Middle Ages, the Central Europe had a history of demolition pagans, but the sacrifice ceremony for the New Year night is never actually sat and just published in the form the wizard. That is why the current Hallowmas, we are still familiar with brooms witches, black cats and curses.
Halloween is one of the oldest holidays with origins going back thousands of years. The holiday we know as Halloween has had many influences from many cultures over the centuries. From the Roman's Pomona Day, the Celtic festival of Samhain, the Christian holidays of All Saints and All Souls.
Hundreds of years ago what is now Great Britain and Northern France, lived the Celts. The Celts worshiped nature and had many gods, the sun god as their favorite. It was "he" who commanded their work and rest periods, and the earth beautiful and the crops grow.
The word itself, "Halloween" is actually rooted in the Catholic Church. It comes from a contracted corruption of All Hallows Eve. November 1 "All Day Hollows" (or "All Saints Day"), is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints. But in the fifth century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (SOW-en), the Celtic New Year.
One story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who were deceased during the preceding year would come back looking for living bodies to possess for the next year. It was believed their only hope for the afterlife are. The Celts believed all laws of space and time were suspended during this time, to which the spiritual world, mix with the living.
Naturally, the living not want to be possessed. So on the night of October 31 villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to them cold and undesirable. They would then dress up in scary costumes and noisily many paraded around the neighborhood, to be as destructive as possible to drive away spirits looking for bodies to possess.
Probably a better explanation why the Celts extinguished their fires was not in spirit possession, but so that all the Celtic tribes could burn Relight from a common source, the Druidic fire that was kept burning to discourage in the middle of Ireland, Usinach.
Some stories tell of how the Celts would anyone at the stake, which was supposed to burn all his possessions, as a sort of a lesson to the spirits. Other accounts of Celtic history debunk these stories as myth.
The Romans, the Celtic practices as their own. But in the first century AD, Samhain was assimilated into celebrations of some of the other Roman traditions that took place In October, as their days at Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit trees and honor. The symbol of Pomona is the apple that the origin of our modern tradition of bobbing for apples on Halloween could explain.
Regarding the origins of Halloween, the most common legend viewed that Halloween came from the old West European countries for the birth of Christ, which consists primarily of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. This old Western Europeans were called Druids, or Celtic. The date of the Celtic Druids and New Year on November 1, and the New Year's Eve, young people in Druids were collected in a team and worn several strange masks, sliced radish bulbs out and walked between villages.
The scope of the practices also changed over time more and more ritualized. If the belief in spirit possession declined, the practice of dressing up like hobgoblins, ghosts, and witches took on a more ceremonial role.
Here it is necessary to explain that the pumpkin light is a custom lately appeared, and there is no pumpkin in the old Western Europe. In fact Halloween is a ceremony that celebrated the harvest of autumn, and it was said as a "ghost days", there is a legend says that the souls of those who died in that year will return to the world to visit, so let the people live souls reflected in the landscape of their successful harvest and give them a lavish meal. So all need fires and lamps were used to waving the souls afraid of ghosts, and the same time to illuminate the way for return of the spirits and lead them back.
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Happy Halloween! What exactly is an evil spirit and how is it different from a zombie?
There are a countless number of (approximately) for both definitions, but in general, a zombie is a reanimated corpse that feeds on brains, while an evil spirit is a living creature that feeds on human flesh. = Dead zombie eats brains & Ghoul = Alive & eat all meat
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