HALLOWEEN: HISTORY AND TRADITION
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Halloween is a holiday traditionally celebrated on eve of all Saints ' day, in the night of 31 October to 1 November. Especially distributed it in English-speaking countries. Widely celebrated in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, although the public holiday and is not. Characteristic attributes and mystical background gradually doing this holiday popular in most countries of the world, including Russia.
Halloween, as many other modern European holidays, has origins in the pre-Christian era. It was then that the people of the Celts was accommodated numerous tribes in the territory of present-day France, Ireland and the UK. The ancient Celts had its own language, beliefs and pagan calendar, delivshij year into two halves — summer and winter. The dark part of the year, winter, when agricultural work were impossible, began with November and October 31 was the last day of the year
New year celebration and the completion of the field work lasted a whole week. By the middle of the holiday was the night on the first of November. This day the Celts called Samajnom, which means "end of summer" in the local language. In addition to the separation of the harvested crop, this day was made particularly revere the dead. It was believed that on the night between the last and the first day of the year, magically opens the door to the underworld, and the souls of the dead, ghosts come out to people.
In order not to become a victim of random dead inhabitants of the Kingdom, the Celts wore animal skins, night left their dark homes, near where the ghosts leave delicious gifts, and gathered near the huge, two fires, divorced Druids. Among those held was taken all campfires tribe, with children on their hands, as well as jump over bonfires smaller. It was believed that the power of fire purifies people and allows them to enter the New th
The history of Halloween
At the same time, the tradition of cut vegetables on the faces, expressing various emotions. Most often the thread did on turnip, as fodder turnip grown for livestock. Leaving the main night celebration Samajna, each collected with a hollow "head of a turnip, inside which were based on the burning embers from the fire. Such a lamp banished evil spirits wandering the streets until the early morning. It became the prototype of the lamp Jack.
Ancestral tradition of celebration of the Celtic new year passed from generation to generation, almost to the beginning of our era. Only after the conquest by the Romans, the Celts to Christianity and were forced to forget about their pagan customs. But with the advent of Catholicism Samhain suddenly got a new round of development — the ancient Celtic tradition, celebration and reflected in the Church the feast of all Saints Day on November 1. On the eve of this day