History of Halloween

For thousands of years people have been celebrating different holidays and festivals at the end of October. The Celts celebrated it as Samhain. The Celts believed that every year on the last day of October, the souls of the dead visited the earth.

Halloween is an autumn holiday that people celebrate every year. It means "holy evening," and it comes every October 31, the evening before All Saints' Day. However, it is not really a church holiday, it is a holiday for children mainly, children pick large orange pumpkins. Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put a burning candle inside. It looks as if there were a person looking out of the pumpkin! These lights are called jack-o'-lanterns, which means "Jack of the lantern".

The children also put on masks and costumes every Halloween. Some children paint their faces to look like monsters. Then they carry boxes or bags to every house. Every time they come to a new house, they say,"Trick or treat! " The adults put treat or candy in their bags.

It becomes populer in many countries today.