Halloween marks the end of summer and harvest and begining of cold darkness and death. As the Samhains put it. Oct 31 is known as the night of the dead. The dead come back to earth to cause trouble and damage living peoples personal belongings.
The Samhains would build huge fires and talk of the dead returning to haunt them and ruin there lives and belongings. Some even spoke if the dead coming back for revenge on the people who may have contributed to there death. The saints and souls of these people were called " Hallowmas". Which is where the name Halloween comes from. The churches soon stepped in and made there mark on the event, by making it holy. By telling people they could talk or see there lost loved ones again.
Halloween now is a child holiday, for dressing up and going door to door and getting candy and wearing silly or " Scary" outfits. We dont think about what really started it all and why it is called "Halloween". All we really know is that we have fun and sometimes strange thing s happen.
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