Happy Halloween

Like many other American holidays, Halloween customs evolved from a mix of traditions. “Halloween” comes from “All Hallows Eve,” or the day before All Saints Day, a traditional holy day for Christians, which falls on November 1. The origins of Halloween, however, go back to the pre-Christian era.

On October 31, the Celts – the ancestors of the present-day Irish, Welsh, and Scottish people who lived over 2,000 years ago – held a festival to mark the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the cold, dark time of the year. According to tradition, the spirits of the dead could come back to life to harm people and crops in the physical world on this evening. People tried to scare away the restless spirits by dressing up as monsters, ghosts, and devils. When millions of Irish, British, and others from Celtic regions immigrated to the United States in the 1840s, they brought this tradition with them.

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