The origin of Halloween

by Nicola Windmill

Count Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, zombies, skeletons, evil witches, and black cats; these are among the most popular images of Halloween. The majority of people, when asked, will say that Halloween is a time for ch...read more

by Jean Parker

Every year on Oct. 31, children all over the United States look forward to a Halloween night complete with costumes, candy, and maybe even a jaunt through a "haunted" house, as they run from door to door yelling, "Trick ...read more

by A. Ryan Robbins

Samhain, End of Summer, was a Pagan festival celebrated in Ireland more than a thousand years ago. When Irish immigrants came to North America in the 19th Century, they called their holiday in English All Hallows' Even'. ...read more

by Lynn Smythe

Celebrating Halloween Halloween has become the United States second biggest holiday, in terms of dollars spent, after Christmas. Have you ever wondered how the traditions associated with Halloween first got their start? ...read more

by Tracey Blanchard

HALLOWEEN Whether it is Jason Vorhees, Michael Myers, Nightmare on Elm Street, black cats or witches, Halloween is a night of mystery and mayhem. The Celtics 1st celebrated Halloween in Ireland. They had celebrated t...read more

by Erik Van Tongerloo

Halloween found his origin during the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain more than 2000 years ago. The population (the Celts) who celebrated this event lived in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the northern part of France a...read more

by Dorothy Jo Bourbeau

The History of Halloween What is today a time to wear silly costumes and get candy from neighbors started with the ancient Celts as the festival of Samhain, pronounced Sow-in, 2000 years ago in what is now Ireland, the ...read more

by Alan Noonan

But as it fell out on last Halloween When the seely court was riding by The queen lighted down on a rowan bank Not far frae the tree where I wont to lie She took me up in her milk white hand And she's stroked me thr...read more

by Maurice Sassoon

Traditionally, Halloween falls on the night of October 31. This is a time when it is perfectly legal to play pranks as long as it is done within certain limits. It has become a custom on the part of those that celebrate H...read more

by Janette Peel

The late autumnal festival of Samhain is a time to rest, regenerate and dream, as the divide between worlds fades away. Samhaim, later known as Halloween, is a cross-quarter festival and the counterbalance to Beltane. ...read more

by Tana Maria Toth (TMT)

Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.Two thousand years ago in the to day Ireland the ancient Celtics celebrated they new year on November 1.Believed and marked that this day,the last day...read more

by Andrew Murphy

Like so many of our holidays, Halloween has become commercialized by American society. It has grown to the point that few people who celebrated it a few hundred years ago would recognize it today. At the same time, most pe...read more

by The Owl

The origin of halloween goes back very far. It goes back before jesus christ was born. Lets call them "the old people". When someone died in very former times, the old people were afraid that the soul of the person who di...read more

by Dyhann Dylan

The wind picks up and you hear the rustle of the leaves scurry across the pavement of the sidewalk and whip up into a twister of leaves at the end of the street. The sky is overcast and it's about to drizzle. Children al...read more

by Sylvia P

Like all holidays Halloween is based on pagan beliefs, but as a child I didn't care where Halloween came from. All I could think about about was what costume I would wear & just how much candy I would come home with by the...read more

by Amber Tenney

The origin of Halloween dates back 2000 years ago to the Celtic celebration of the dead. A Celtic festival was held on November 1, the first day of the celtic New Year, honoring the Samhain, the Lord of the Dead. Celtic ri...read more

by Cody Shouey

Halloween has for the longest time been a mysterious holiday and there are many different stories about how this seemingly ominous day came to be. Records of this holiday have been recorded from before the days of Christ...read more

by Mark Dupuy

Not only is the Christian Halloween derivative of other faiths and customs,the entire Christian calender is an amalgam of other faiths and beliefs. Lets look at several examples and examine Why these strange marriages of f...read more

by Aynne P Morison

The Holiday of Samhain pre-dates the Christian calendar. In fact many of the old Pagan Holidays had the Christian Church attempting to surplant them by putting their own 'spin' on the Older widely held Faith with holidays...read more

by Gladys Wood

I just KNEW that eventually someone would climb in here with that old All Hallows bit. Please, the Christian Church MOVED the holiday from May to November just to mess with the Pagans and the New Era Christians are stil...read more