| When people think of Halloween they think fancy | | | | would turn off all the lights in their houses, dress up |
| dress costumes, trick or treating, pumpkins and ghost | | | | in scary costumes and cause mayhem in the town in |
| stories. Just like any other holiday that we celebrate | | | | an attempt to scare the spirits away. This theory |
| the true meaning has been forgotten and most | | | | was so popular that the Roman Catholics later |
| people don't even know how these traditions started. | | | | adopted these practices as their own making them |
| Halloween is one of the most fun customs celebrated | | | | even more popular and widespread. However, over |
| around the world. For children it's all about dressing up | | | | the years spirit possession became less popular and |
| and getting as many sweets as possible and for | | | | people started dressing up as witches, goblins and |
| adults it's all about dressing up and having a drink or | | | | demons in a more ceremonial manner. |
| two. Note the common occurrence is dressing up - a | | | | It is a common misconception that Halloween is an |
| practice that is hundreds of years old and is still | | | | American holiday. However, traditions such as Boys |
| performed to this day. What is it about fancy dress | | | | Clothes fancy dress costumes and ghosts weren't |
| costumes that gets everyone so excited and why | | | | introduced in America until the famous potato famine |
| do we actually dress up on Halloween? | | | | which hit Ireland in the 1840s. Desperately seeking |
| The word Halloween derives from the term "All | | | | refuge many Irish residents fled to America taking |
| Hallows Eve" which occurred the night before All | | | | their Halloween celebrations with them. |
| Hallows Day and was a Roman Catholic holiday that | | | | Even though people now Boden Girls celebrate |
| celebrated the saints. However, even before people | | | | Halloween very differently to how they did many |
| started celebrating All Hallows Day, the Celtic Irish | | | | centuries ago, people all over the world still dress up |
| celebrated the 31st October as the New Year. It | | | | in fancy dress costumes at Halloween today. Many |
| was believed that on the eve of this day the spirits | | | | believe that dressing up is a tribute to the devil when |
| of the recently deceased would re - enter the bodies | | | | in fact the exact opposite is the case as it was |
| of the living for a chance of an afterlife. | | | | originally started as an attempt to save peoples' souls |
| Naturally scared and fearing for their souls, the Celts | | | | from demons and to celebrate the saints. |