Halloween

Halloween, a time for dressing up as someone you aren't, gobbling down candy, watching scary movies, and scaring your friends. But where did Halloween come from, have you ever wondered?
WELL......

Halloween's origins date back to the Celtic festival of Samhain. The Celts lived 2000 years ago in what is now Ireland, the UK and northern France. They celebrated their new year on November 1st, a day often associated with death. They believed that on Oct. 31, the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the ceremony they dressed in costumes typically consisting of animal heads and skins.

By the 800s, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands. In the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV designated November 1 All Saints' Day, a time to honor saints and martyrs. It is widely believed today that the pope was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. The celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas and the night before it, the night of Samhain, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.
And now you know the origins of Halloween. :D