Halloween should be your favorite holiday. If it isn’t, the fascinating history of the holiday should just make it an even better holiday to you. The history in this article is guaranteed to intrigue you, and maybe that will get you to learn how to love the spooky holiday. Halloween first generated as a Celtic holiday that was called Samhain. Though, Samhain wasn’t anything like the Halloween now. People would try to scare off ghosts off by lighting bonfires, and then by wearing costumes. This is how Halloween was associated with scary things. By the 18th century, this was changed, by Pope Gregory, to a holiday that was all about saints. After Samhain was moved to America, the holiday was mainly based on beliefs, …show more content…
Not only is the holiday celebrated by trick-or-treating, there are also a lot of parties where people will dress up, maybe carve pumpkins, bob for apples, or even just eat a lot of food. If you trick-or-treat, or hand out candy, you have probably seen a wide variety of costumes people wear. Typical costumes that seem to appear every year are:
Super heros
Villains
Animals
Witches
Princesses
Ghosts
Zombies
Assortments of foods
Sports players
This is only a list of a few costumes you’ve probably seen. There is a list that’s near never ending, and this is only the start to it. A big part of Halloween that kids love, is the candy that comes from trick-or-treating. The candy list is also a very long list, but we’ll start a list that’ll just make Halloween a much more appetizing holiday.
Kit Kat
Snickers
Chocolate Bars
Sour Patch Kids
Reece’s
Life Savers
Licorice
Starburst
Suckers
Nerds
Tootsie Rolls
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This was changed because people started putting very disturbing things in these, some as far as drugs and razors. You must be thinking that that is absolutely crazy, but there are people out there like that, which can also make halloween a very frightening dangerous holiday. It still can be a dangerous one, especially as a driver. If you were to drive on Beggar’s Night, you would need to be very cautious of little kids running around house to house. Not only because of that, but also because of costumes, kids can be very hard to see. Making it easier for them to get hurt.
The background on this holiday had to make you learn to fall in love with the gory, but sugary, holiday. Even if it has its cautious, scary ways, it can still be a very fun holiday to celebrate! I suggest putting together your best costume, and going out and celebrating it this fall. Just make sure to watch out for clowns.. Or any other scary costume for that