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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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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Which Country Does Celebrate Halloween?
Halloween All Over The World
If 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.Belgian people celebrate Halloween since more than ten years but 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, Belgian people 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.
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Arsenic And Old Lace
The Monster Mash
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Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt Kickers featuring Cary Grant and Priscilla Lane
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Homemade Scooby Doo Costumes
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.
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Children Do Not Want Fairy Costumes For Halloween
If you know me a little, you already know that I am Belgian.In Belgium, we always celebrated All Saints Day and the Day of Deaths on 1st and 2nd of November instead of Halloween and I cannot say that they are subjects very funny to write about.
In Belgium also, the weather is always rainy, so, since I work in a school, children are often inside rather than outside and I always have to find an activity for them so that they are not bored.
This week I also had to find some Halloween subjects to write about.
So, I found the solution: 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 children what are the Halloween costumes they would like to dress on October 31st.
I must acknowledge that I was terribly disappointed. When I was a child, I adored being dressed up as a princess, baroness, White-Snow, etc. For Carnival, the boys were all dressed like Robin Hood, The prince of Arabian Nights, cow-boy, indian, musketeers...
But what kind of costume do the 2007 children like?
I asked the children at school what kind of costume they want to dress for Halloween.
The answers were diversified even though they did not have much of magical touch.
"What kind of Halloween costume would you like for Halloween, Sylvie?"
"Scream's costume including the mask of course, Madame Domi!"
She is only 10 years old! I thought that her answer would be a Cinderella or Esmeralda costume. It was not! She wanted to dress the Scream's murderer costume. Why? Because Scream was the most interesting movie she saw!
Anaïs answer was the following one:
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Dancing Skeleton
The Monster Mash
Dancing Skeleton
This is something I made just for fun. It was originally for a Halloween party that ended up not happening. Oh, well. Now it's on here.
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Halloween Costumes Trends: Addams Family Costumes
The first person I interviewed is my sister, Sabine. 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.
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The Addams Family Theme (Original 1964)
These are the opening credits for the original run of The Addams Family which aired from 1964-66. Introduction Lyrics: They're creepy and they're kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They're all together ooky, The Addams Family. Their house is a museum Where people come to see 'em They really are a scream The Addams Family. (Neat) (Sweet) (Petite) So get a witches shawl on A broomstick you can crawl on We're gonna pay a call on The Addams Family. Cast: Gomez: John Astin Morticia: Carolyn Jones Pugsley: Kenneth Weatherwax Wednesday: Lisa Loring Uncle Fester: Jackie Coogan Grandmama: Blossom Rock Lurch: Ted Cassidy (although he looks like John Kerry) Thing: Ted Cassidy Cousin Itt: Felix Silla (on-screen) and Tony Magro (voice) Show sponsored by Crest Toothpaste.
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Homemade Grease Costumes For Halloween 2007
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.
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Halloween Pictures
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2007 Halloween Events In Belgium
We recently adopted Halloween
Halloween is within some days and I was wondering what kind of activities are organized in the district I live. While reading the local newspaper, I realized that nothing was envisaged.I thus made a search on the Internet in order to know what was organized in the other Belgian districts and was not disappointed by what I learned.
Many Halloween events are organized in Wallonia and in Brussels. While bars, restaurants, dancing clubs organize their own Halloween evening, some districts also have their own events.
Here are some examples:
A school in Trooz organize the "Trooz Halloween Festival"; which is a two kilometers walk, marked out, decorated and supervised, with spitting of fire, witch, fairies, phantoms, werewolves, waders, magician, and fireworks at the end of the evening.
In the district of Fontaine-L'Evêque, the Cox Team Belgium organizes its Halloween supper with a special Halloween menu.
Appetizer: Witch juice.
Main dish: The pig of Malvira in porchetta (Malvira is a Belgian TV witch).
Dessert and Coffee.
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Halloween Dessert Recipes
Pot-Luck Halloween Party For Everyone
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.
French Pumpkin Doughnut
Ingredients:
* Cut 500 g of Hokkaido pumpkin into small cubes
* 2 tablespoon Sugar
* 2 tablespoon Soft butter
* 2 lightly beaten eggs
* 125 fl oz flour
* Oil
Preparation:
Put the Hokkaido pumpkin in a pot
Cover with water and let it boil until the pumpkin is cooked and tender
Drain the pumpkin and combine with sugar, butter and eggs
Gradually add flour while beating
File a tablespoon of the mixture into hot oil for about 4-5 minutes
Serve warm.
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