Halloween can be dated back thousands of years to the Celts. The calander of the Celts begins on November 1 to celebrate the end of the summer and having the crops harvested. Therefore they celebrated the day before, because they thought the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred.
They called this celebration Samhain. The Celts felt that on this day before the mew year that the ghosts of the dead came back to earth. Durring this time the Druids, or celtic priests, made predictions about the future. The Celts took these predictions very seriosly and were dependent on them for the winter months.
While the festival was going of they would built a huge bonfire and sacrafice to Celtic Deities. They would where costumes of animal hide and heads.http://www.history.com/minisites/halloween
About Me
- Andrew
- I attend Payson High School, I am a senior in a class of around 30 people. I have two amazing parents who have raised me as a stong christian. Without Jesus Christ in my life I don't think i could find a purpose in life. Alex, Abram, Ashley, and Audrey are my younger siblings. I love them all. One thing i find great joy in is baseball. I have played baseball for 15 years and it has been great.
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