No unfortunatly I did not dress up for Halloween today. No I dont think it is a overrated holiday it is alot of fun. Some years we decorate our house but not this year. when we do decorate we rake up our leaves and put them in orange garbage bags and put pictures of witches, ghosts and skeletons our the windows.
About 2,000 years ago in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, lived a group of people called the Celts.The Celts' lives revolved around growing their food, and considered the end of the year to be the end of the harvest season. So, they celebrated new year's eve each year on October 31st with a festival called "Samhain,". By 800 AD, the influence of Christianity spread into Celtic lands. In the seventh century, replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday, Pope Boniface IV designated November 1st as All Saints' Day, a time to honor saints and martyrs. The combined and updated celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints' Day) and the night before it, the night of Samhain, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.
When I was young enough to trick or treat my favorite costume was a vampire. My dad used to scare me all the time on Halloween when I was younger. I scare my little brother now. The scariest moie I have ever seen would have to be amityville horror.
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