Currently, there are holidays that were previously celebrated in several countries, and then spread around the world. One of them – Halloween-celebrating October 31. What is Halloween and how it came about? Face it.
Of history
A Few thousand years ago in the UK, Ireland, Northern France, lived the Celts. November 1, they celebrated the New year. This day is considered the end of harvest and the beginning of the new season of dark and cold. The Celts were convinced that on the night of 31 October to 1 November, the border between the netherworld and real people to blur.
The Night when spirits return to earth, called Samhain. Evil destroyed the crops and the crops, but helped priests to predict the future. So the Celts lit bonfires, made sacrifices. During the festival people dressed in animal heads and skins to scare away otherworldly guests.
“What is Halloween?” you ask. This is the same Samhain, but the modern. The land of the Celts was conquered by the Romans in 43 ad After that national celebration was combined with two Roman holidays: Feralia (dealing with death) and Pomonal (in honor of the fruit of the goddess). The symbol of Pomona was an Apple, it has become a attribute of the new rites. The holiday was later renamed Halloween.
First, a solemn date was celebrated in English-speaking countries, then joined Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, island country of Oceania, Russia and CIS.
What is the Halloween characters
“Halloween” have their own symbols. The most important – pumpkin-lamps. The history of their manufacture starts in the Celtic period: at that time people made lights that help souls pass into purgatory. In Scotland, the attribute for the lamp were turnips, and in North America it was replaced with a pumpkin. “Jack” – pumpkin with a carved face that portrays a sinister grin, the inside of it – a lighted candle. It is believed that this fruit, left at home, will drive away the evil spirits.
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Another character-costumes. Popular characters of horror movies, the village Scarecrow. Main theme-monsters, evil, death, the occult. Traditional colors-orange, black.
What is Halloween today
In our day, a holiday I love to celebrate adults and children. Latest go from house to house in costumes and beg for candy. And for those who refuse, do mischief. Girls in this day, wondering at her spouse with the help of Apple peel or candle.
Already a tradition to organize rides, inhabited by ghosts. Their goal-to scare visitors. From "haunted house" they differ in the use of corn mazes and hay stacks in the symbolism. Halloween only in the United States brings to the business of $ 500 million. The technical level of the organization is constantly growing.
The table must be apples. In many countries cooking the fruit in syrup, Apple cider caramel, toffee. In North America eat sweets in the shape of a pumpkin (candy Pacini) and corn (Candi roots). In part, except corn and pumpkins, included sugar, artificial colors, binders, honey, marshmallows, low-fat cream.
Halloween Party is not complete without bread barmbrack. When cooking the dough, put a piece of cloth, a pea, a coin, a piece of wood or a ring. What subject will get the consumer – this is the future (fabric – poverty, peas – to be without a wedding, coin-wealth, wood chips – trouble in the family, the ring – the imminent wedding).
People can be evil or good. Plunging into the spooky-fun holiday extravaganza, he gets a chance at rebirth, and understanding the unknown. Throwing off the heavy burden of everyday problems, it is cleared back to life.
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