Halloween

Fun Halloween Costume Ideas Halloween is a great time to allow your creativity to take over and truly be inspired. Long gone are the days when Halloween focused on ghosts and ghouls, these days, Halloween is all about being creative. Year after year, Neil Patrick Harrison, and his adorable family blow the minds of people across the world with their creative family costumes. Fortunately, you don’t have to be rich and famous to have fun with your costumes; it just takes a little imagination. The…

Halloween, also known as "All hallows eve" can be traced back more than two thousand years to a pre-Christian Celtic festival known as "Samhain". Halloween (October 31st) is the night when everyone dresses up as their greatest fantasy or their worst nightmare and goes door to door saying the world renowned phrase "trick or treat". Everyone wanders the streets collecting candy on this wonderful holiday without knowing the history behind it, or how the holiday even began, but how did Halloween…

It was a cold, dark and dingy Halloween night. The moon was full, although it was mostly covered by weightless fog and charcoal black clouds. The sky was just as creepy as all the realistic costumes. The night was perfect for Halloween night. The crisp leaves on the trees rattled when the wind blew. When people walk on the fallen leaves, they would crunch like someone was eating potato chips. People were everywhere, walking up and down, around and through the neighborhoods. Some were wearing…

with Christmas and New Year’s, Halloween is celebrated all around the world, and it just so happens to be the best holiday ever and others agree. According to the Theodysseyonline.com, “Regardless of religion or nationality, Halloween is for everyone. But the greatest thing of all -- if you’re not into it, you do not have to participate!” It’s the perfect excuse to dress up and act like a kid. This holiday has the best events, food, parties, and decorations. Halloween is a great excuse for…

Halloween is a fun fall holiday that is full of many traditions and celebrations. Children often dress up in costumes, attend parties or parades and eat seasonal treats. Unfortunately, Halloween has some safety risks. Adhering to the following guidelines can help keep everyone safe and able to enjoy the holiday. Trick-or-Treating Safety Children should never go trick-or-treating alone. They should always go in a group that includes adults until they are old enough to stay with a group of…

and similarities between Day of the Dead and Halloween. A few are costumes, death, and food; within those similarities are most of the differences. One of the first thing are the costumes. During the day of the dead people dress up as skeletons, one of the famous skeleton’s name is La Catrina. She represents that no amount of money can keep you from death. While most of the skeleton costumes have meanings during the Day of the Dead, during halloween when people dress up it’s just for fun,…

Today Halloween is the second most commercialized and profitable holidays in today’s world, where trick or treating, costumes, and decorations all are apart of some of the favorite things we like to think about with Halloween. Although in Rick Bass’s short story Antlers, the story starts with the town’s annual Halloween party, where the traditions they have are a little less traditional. In the story the party itself holds a very symbolic meaning and has many underlying tones throughout the…

Terminate the Cause In “Showing Skin: The Ethics of Sexy Halloween Costumes” by Alissa Roy strongly feels that there should be a change of women clothes. She feels that society is facing a huge problem that most people do not notice of are how women dressed on Halloween. She also feels that this costumes are getting out of hand and should be forbidden for the good causes for the next young generation. Halloween costumes are what make Halloween a fantastic night, but I agree with Alissa Roy’s…

In the early Christian church, Halloween was a day for remembrance of martyrs, which is also called All Saints Day. All Hallows Eve, was the day before All Saints Day which began that time of remembrance. Presently, Halloween had become mostly a secular holiday. A time when kids dress up in a costume of their favorite fantasy character or a hero, and go door to door collecting candy. Although that might not sound so bad, kids now sometimes dress up as devils, vampires, and other evil characters…

Halloween In Benjamin Bradford’s History of Halloween, he explains how Halloween or “All Hallows Eve” came about. The intentions of “trick or treat” and the influences behind Halloween. Halloween is thought to be influenced from a celtic festival called “Samhain” (pronounced “sah win”), meaning “summers end.” “Samhain ‘also thought to have been a time of communing with the dead,” according to John Santino, folklorist. Santino also stated "There was a belief that it was a day when spirits of…