Saturday, October 22, 2011

The Beginnings of Halloween and Halloween Customs

Halloween or Hallowe\'en is an yearly festival which is celebrated on October 31st and also is a super popular holiday in many parts of the world. It\'s the 1st of the end of year holidays, prior to Thanksgiving and December. Just like other popular holidays it has become commercialized and also nearly all people don\'t know the much about Halloween and how it began.

Many of the traditions which are practiced now on Halloween had been actually brought over to America by Irish immigrants who celebrated The feast of samhain, a Celtic harvest festival. Samhain is the celebration of the lighter half of the year and also the commencement of the darker half and at times this is called the Celtic New Year.

Some of historians even found that

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