Halloween In The History
Halloween was originally a pagan holiday celebrated by Celtic people and born from the pagan holiday "Samhain."
Samhain is a holiday that celebrates the dark season of the Celtic year. Gallic people also celebrated this holiday; which was called "Samonios". Samonios has been replaced in Gallic countries by Christian celebrations.
Samhain was celebrated three days before November 1st and three days after and the origin of there was no carved pumpkin nor trick or treating. People had a lantern made out of a turnip. The celebration was strictly observed by the whole society and gave the opportunity to every barbarian to eat, drink and have fun.
Over the centuries, continental Europe converted to Christianity and abandoned Samonios in favour of All Saints Day and Samhain became All Hallow's Eve.
However, the Halloween that we currently celebrate has nothing in common with Samhain.
Halloween and All Saints are still interrelated because Halloween means "The night before the feast of All Saints'. There was also "All Hallow's Day" which was our Continental all Saints Day.
All Hallow's Eve; which evolved during the Christianization of European populations, was imported in America by European colonists and the current Halloween holiday was created by the Irish emigrants.
In Belgium, two villages still celebrate Samonios (Samhain); which became a mix of All Saints Day, Grindin and Saint Gregory holidays. One of these villages is Gouy-Lez-Pieton.
A friend of mine lives in Gouy and when I talk about Halloween to her, she says: "We've never replaced Saint-Nicolas by Christmas so, we'll never replace our All Saints Day and our Day Of The Dead by Halloween!"
However, she agreed to organize a Halloween party with me next year.
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- Which Country Does Celebrate Halloween?
- Dancing Skeleton
- Sixties Science Fiction Halloween Costume Idea
- Homemade Halloween Illuminations
- Arsenic And Old Lace
- Host A Pot-Luck Halloween Party
- Halloween Party Favors
- Ghoulish Halloween Desserts
- More Halloween Ideas
- Children Do Not Want Fairy Costumes For Halloween
- Halloween Pictures
- Homemade Halloween Costumes: Addams Family
- Halloween News
- Halloween Costume Idea For Oversized People
- Halloween By eBay
- Homemade Halloween Costumes: Grease
- More Halloween Fun!
- Sexy Halloween Costume Ideas
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Which Country Does Celebrate Halloween?
Halloween All Over The World
While some continental European countries adopted Halloween, this has not been without difficulty. Indeed, we consider this celebration being too "American Marketing" style. European people give more value to their culture and traditions than to commercial events.
Belgians celebrate Halloween since more than ten years but, for instance, a small village called Gouy-Lez-Pieton refuses to adopt it, preferring to celebrate their own Samhain-style holiday. Even if Belgian people organize a Day Before Christmas dinner, they still offer gifts to children on December 6th and not on December 25th. So, I doubt that my country will replace All Saints Day by Halloween.
On the other hand, Belgians do not open their doors to unknown persons - including children - and we are not welcomed to ask for candies. By the way, many children are fighting in the streets to steal candy from others.
Other countries that celebrate Halloween.
Belgians celebrate Halloween since more than ten years but, for instance, a small village called Gouy-Lez-Pieton refuses to adopt it, preferring to celebrate their own Samhain-style holiday. Even if Belgian people organize a Day Before Christmas dinner, they still offer gifts to children on December 6th and not on December 25th. So, I doubt that my country will replace All Saints Day by Halloween.
On the other hand, Belgians do not open their doors to unknown persons - including children - and we are not welcomed to ask for candies. By the way, many children are fighting in the streets to steal candy from others.
Other countries that celebrate Halloween.
Sixties Science Fiction Halloween Costume Idea
There have been a lot of excellent and memorable television shows and movies during the sixties.
The first one of these series is Star Trek, the brainchild of Gene Roddenberry.
As a good example, if you are a captain James T. Kirk from this period of time, you would be wearing a uniform that involved a mustard sweater, black trousers as well as black boots. This is the kind of costume that anyone would recognize; whether they liked Star Trek or not.
So, what do you think of wearing a 60's and 70's Science Fiction Halloween costume?
The first one of these series is Star Trek, the brainchild of Gene Roddenberry.
As a good example, if you are a captain James T. Kirk from this period of time, you would be wearing a uniform that involved a mustard sweater, black trousers as well as black boots. This is the kind of costume that anyone would recognize; whether they liked Star Trek or not.
So, what do you think of wearing a 60's and 70's Science Fiction Halloween costume?
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Homemade Halloween Illuminations
Here is an almost free Halloween craft!
Paint small jars in black, white and orange.
Draw some Halloween shapes on them and insert a tea light candle in each jar.
For instance, paint a white jar, draw Scream murderer's eyes and mouth and voila, you have an original ghost light.
Place the Halloween candles on a black tray, insert mini pumpkins, maple berries and leaves, etc.
If you have bigger jars, you may paint them as well and pour in Christmas lights.
Paint small jars in black, white and orange.
Draw some Halloween shapes on them and insert a tea light candle in each jar.
For instance, paint a white jar, draw Scream murderer's eyes and mouth and voila, you have an original ghost light.
Place the Halloween candles on a black tray, insert mini pumpkins, maple berries and leaves, etc.
If you have bigger jars, you may paint them as well and pour in Christmas lights.
Host A Pot-Luck Halloween Party
What about a pot-luck Halloween party? What about inviting your friends and neighbours; married couples or single parents and their children?
Unfortunately, there is a major inconvenient: when she guests a party, the housewife must stay in the kitchen to ensure that everyone has something to eat and to drink and to prepare the meal.
This year, the housewife will participate and enjoy the Halloween party. The principle of this event is the following one: each guest brings different dishes: meal, dessert, pie or drink - alcoholic or not.
Prepare your Halloween party for everyone by creating invitation cards with funny Halloween decorations. Set up a costume theme. Decorate your house. Ask children to help you: they also participate to the event.
Unfortunately, there is a major inconvenient: when she guests a party, the housewife must stay in the kitchen to ensure that everyone has something to eat and to drink and to prepare the meal.
This year, the housewife will participate and enjoy the Halloween party. The principle of this event is the following one: each guest brings different dishes: meal, dessert, pie or drink - alcoholic or not.
Prepare your Halloween party for everyone by creating invitation cards with funny Halloween decorations. Set up a costume theme. Decorate your house. Ask children to help you: they also participate to the event.
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Ghoulish Halloween Desserts
Witch Eyes recipe:* Canned peeled and drained litchis
* Incorporate a black grape or a maraschino cherry into each litchi
Halloween Lanterns:
Ingredients:
* Big oranges
* Chocolate mousse
Preparation:
Cut the top of each orange
Remove the pulp or the oranges
Draw eyes, a nose and a mouth as if they were pumpkins
Fill the oranges with chocolate mousse
Cap them with the top you cutted
Keep them in a cool place.
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- Halloween Songs
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- How To Build Your Own Halloween Graveyard
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- Plus Size Halloween Costumes
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Children Do Not Want Fairy Costumes For Halloween
Since many centuries, Belgians celebrated All Saints Day and the Day of the Dead on 1st and 2nd of November instead of Halloween and I cannot say that they are funny subjects to write about.I work in a school, having to deal with after school activities for kids. Since it's raining 11 months a year in Belgium, children are often inside rather than outside and I always have to find an activity for them so that they are not bored.
These days, I found a way to keep them occupied: instead of writing an article dedicated to Halloween and called "top 10 Halloween Kids Costumes" based on articles and information written by adults, I asked the kids what are the Halloween costumes they would like to wear on October 31st.
And... I was terribly disappointed. When I was a child, I adored being dressed up as a princess, baroness, Snow-White, etc. For Carnival, boys were all dressed like Robin Hood, The prince of Arabian Nights, cow-boys, indians, musketeers...
But what kind of costume do the children of the 21st century like?
Here are some examples:
"What kind of Halloween costume would you like for Halloween, Sylvie?"
"Scream's costume: I love the mask as well as the knife, Madame Domi!"
She is only 10 years old! I thought that her answer would be a Cinderella or Esmeralda costume. No, no no... She wanted to wear a horror movie's murderer costume. Why? Because Scream was the most interesting movie she saw!
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Homemade Halloween Costumes: Addams Family
I asked my friends what kind of Halloween costume they will wear this year. I thus learned that Gothic black costumes are usually appreciated by the women who I interviewed.
The first person I interviewed is my sister. There is no secret about the Halloween costume she plans to wear: my sister celebrates Halloween each and every day.
She wears only black clothes since twenty years and her skin is very pale. She only puts dark red or black lipstick on her lips. She has long black hair.
Sometimes she's wearing white clothes, as a royal widow; which surprised her friends and family.
My sister is a Morticia Addams replica. Her friends called my sister "Morticia" and they called her family "The Addams Family"; which does not mean that my brother in law is a Gomez Addams replica but means that he really appreciate being married with a this very special person.
Fortunately for us, their children do not look like Pugsley and Wednesday Addams.
You too should be wearing a homemade Addams Family character costume for Halloween :)
The first person I interviewed is my sister. There is no secret about the Halloween costume she plans to wear: my sister celebrates Halloween each and every day.
She wears only black clothes since twenty years and her skin is very pale. She only puts dark red or black lipstick on her lips. She has long black hair.
Sometimes she's wearing white clothes, as a royal widow; which surprised her friends and family.
My sister is a Morticia Addams replica. Her friends called my sister "Morticia" and they called her family "The Addams Family"; which does not mean that my brother in law is a Gomez Addams replica but means that he really appreciate being married with a this very special person.
Fortunately for us, their children do not look like Pugsley and Wednesday Addams.
You too should be wearing a homemade Addams Family character costume for Halloween :)
The Addams Family Theme Song
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Halloween Costume Idea For Oversized People
Do you have a few excess pounds or are you pregnant and are you looking for a GREAT Halloween costume idea for oversized people?
I have one for you!
A great Halloween costume idea for big sized people is to go to the party as a mobster. In all of the modern movies that deal with the mob there are always a few people in the meeting that are overweight and if you were to imitate one of those characters you would definitely win big on the evening.
And this particular costume has the added benefit of only requiring you to do your hair a certain way and wear a suit. Obviously, women can wear that kind of costume too!
I have one for you!
A great Halloween costume idea for big sized people is to go to the party as a mobster. In all of the modern movies that deal with the mob there are always a few people in the meeting that are overweight and if you were to imitate one of those characters you would definitely win big on the evening.
And this particular costume has the added benefit of only requiring you to do your hair a certain way and wear a suit. Obviously, women can wear that kind of costume too!
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Homemade Halloween Costumes: Grease
USA, the fifties. Danny and Sandy met at Rydell High School. They were in love last summer but Danny does not admit it to anyone. Danny treats Sandy as an unknown person. Sandy will be looking to win back the love of Danny and will spectacularly the day of the Rydell High School Fancy Fair.
In the year 1978, one of the most famous movie musicals in the USA is brought to the screen.
Grease is one of the most significant film of the late seventies and will affect a worldwide generation of teenagers. We loved Grease; we wanted to look like Sandy, Rizzo, Marty, Danny, Keneckie or Fonzy. If you were a teenager thirty years ago, you surely sang "You're The One That I Want" and "Summer Nights".
Halloween is the opportunity to realize our dreams. I dreamed to look like Rizzo. If I choose not to dress a witch costume for this Halloween, I probably will choose Rizzo's costume.
Grease is full of characters and then of different costumes based on the fifties teenagers clothing:
Sandy is blonde, naive and she fell in love with Danny.
Rizzo, leader of the Pink Ladies, is a teenager who lives free according to her own laws. She broke with Danny and is Keneckie's girlfriend.
So, what about a homemade Grease costume for Halloween?
In the year 1978, one of the most famous movie musicals in the USA is brought to the screen.
Grease is one of the most significant film of the late seventies and will affect a worldwide generation of teenagers. We loved Grease; we wanted to look like Sandy, Rizzo, Marty, Danny, Keneckie or Fonzy. If you were a teenager thirty years ago, you surely sang "You're The One That I Want" and "Summer Nights".
Halloween is the opportunity to realize our dreams. I dreamed to look like Rizzo. If I choose not to dress a witch costume for this Halloween, I probably will choose Rizzo's costume.
Grease is full of characters and then of different costumes based on the fifties teenagers clothing:
Sandy is blonde, naive and she fell in love with Danny.
Rizzo, leader of the Pink Ladies, is a teenager who lives free according to her own laws. She broke with Danny and is Keneckie's girlfriend.
So, what about a homemade Grease costume for Halloween?
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Sexy Halloween Costume Ideas
Halloween is for some people the opportunity to realize their dreams and dressing costumes that they would never dressed in other circumstances; like dressing a Robin Hood costume, a Devil costume, a John Lennon costume, etc.During one month, I noticed that the most numerous searches made for Halloween are "Halloween sexy costumes"; which means that lots of people would like to wear a sexy costume for Halloween or offer a sexy Halloween costume to their partner.
So, in order to please my visitors, I create a page with some sexy Halloween costumes examples. You only need to click on an image to be redirected to the reseller main site and be able to watch hundreds of other Halloween sexy costumes available out there.
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Homemade Halloween Costumes: Scooby Doo!
I loved watching these four teenagers and a dog driving around the world in their Mystery Machine solving mysterious and frightening cases in evil cities.
These four teenagers are named Fred "Freddie" Jones, the smart and athletic boy; Daphne Blake, the pretty fashioned girl; Velma Dinkley, intellectual and a bit overweight; and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers the fearful beatnik.
At the end of each episode, Velma reveals the explanation of these strange cases; which, finally, are simple scams involving one or several local citizens.
One of the most sympathetic characters of this cartoon is a brown Great Dane. A cheerful, flippant, fearful, greedy talking dog named Scooby-Doo.
Scooby-Doo and Samy are the humoristic side of this sinister atmosphere.
If you're looking for a funny, scary and original Halloween costume, then, a "Scooby-Doo" one is for you!
These four teenagers are named Fred "Freddie" Jones, the smart and athletic boy; Daphne Blake, the pretty fashioned girl; Velma Dinkley, intellectual and a bit overweight; and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers the fearful beatnik.
At the end of each episode, Velma reveals the explanation of these strange cases; which, finally, are simple scams involving one or several local citizens.
One of the most sympathetic characters of this cartoon is a brown Great Dane. A cheerful, flippant, fearful, greedy talking dog named Scooby-Doo.
Scooby-Doo and Samy are the humoristic side of this sinister atmosphere.
If you're looking for a funny, scary and original Halloween costume, then, a "Scooby-Doo" one is for you!
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Lovely lens and very informative. Funny thing about Halloween and Europe, it origins in Ireland but in the Scandinavian countries we don't celebrate it at all or so it was. Now the shops have taken up the idea to make money. If you are so inclined I have a Sexy Halloween Costume Lens
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