tentang hari halloween

Halloween is an abbreviation of All Hallows' Even (eve and the same event that evening / night) which means the night before the feast of All Hallow is now called the Feast of All Saints (All Saints Holy Day). The letter "n" at the end of the word Halloween comes from the event. [6]. In ancient times, on November 1, used as a festival day in the various traditions keagaamaan European paganism [3] until Pope Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the celebration of All Saints' Day by the calendar of saints from the date of May 13 to November 1. Dated May 13 was once celebrated as a holiday for the festival of Lemuria paganism.


Feast of All Saints Christian missionary determined to coincide with the pagan holiday with pagan people reason to believe the Christian religion. All Souls Day (Day of the Dead) is celebrated the arrival of relatives and ghosts returned to earth family is still celebrated in some countries such as Brazil, Mexico, and Philippines.


Hundreds of years ago in what is now Great Britain and Northern France, lived the Celts. The Celts worshipped nature and had many gods, with the sun god as their favorite. It was "he" who commanded their work and their rest times, and who made the earth beautiful and the crops grow.


The Halloween we celebrate today includes all of these influences, Pomona Day's apples, nuts, and harvest, the Festival of Samhain's black cats, magic, evil spirits and death, and the ghosts, skeletons and skulls from All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day