Halloween
The three days between 31st October and 2nd November see pagan and
Christian celebrations intertwined in a fascinating way and is a perfect
example of superstition struggling with religious belief.
Traditional Halloween celebrations
and customs in England and the rest of Great Britain.On October 31st, we celebrate Halloween,thought to be the one night of the year when ghosts, witches, and fairies are especially active.
The easy answer to this question is that no one really knows the origins of Halloween.
What we do know for sure is that Halloween is on the eve of a major Catholic festival, (1st November) and the eve of the pagan Celtic festival known as .
Currently, it is widely thought that
Halloween originated as a pagan Celtic festival of the dead related to
the Irish and Scottish Samhain, but there is no evidence that it was
connected with the dead in pre-C
hristian times.
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