History of Halloween, do you know?

persunshop · Post by **persunshop** » 02 Nov 2011, 22:35

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century including Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom as well as of Australia and New Zealand.

In that night, many people wear horrible or strange dress to attend party and trick or treat other people, many people love such kind of holiday.

What do you wear at that night, have you also attend the party to have a joy?

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 03 Nov 2011, 07:16

Indeed Halloween is one of those great pre-Christian festivals that are still with us. Nowadays it is mainly an excuse for kids to stock up on goodies and for adolescents to drink too much & generally behave badly. I have noticed this year though that elaborate dressing up & holding or attending a Halloween Party has again become very popular among my adult friends, some really got very adventurous in their costume choices! Maybe a reaction to all this unpopular austerity, you just have to blow off steam occasionally & it was, of course, seen in Celtic times as a last stand against the approach of the dark & cold winter. Christianity modified this somewhat & November is seen by many in Ireland as a month to cut back & maybe give up the drink or do other penance .... although for most it has little to do with religion & is a way to save the EUR's to finance a bigger blowout at Xmas & the December Party Season.
We're still very like our Celtic ancestors really .... any excuse for a Party!

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 03 Nov 2011, 09:42

Halloween is second only to Xmas as the most popular holiday. Mexico has Dia de los Muretes on the 2nd of november, its a cross between Halloween and Memorial day. They put candy skulls and flowers on the graves, sometimes go from house to house to get donations candy, etc. for the dead.

persunshop · Post by **persunshop** » 03 Nov 2011, 22:07

yes, i can not agree with you two more!

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 04 Nov 2011, 20:09

Fran wrote:We're still very like our Celtic ancestors really .... any excuse for a Party!

Yes. Or at least, any excuse for a bit of drinking...

persunshop · Post by **persunshop** » 04 Nov 2011, 20:22

Lonestar wrote:
Fran wrote:We're still very like our Celtic ancestors really .... any excuse for a Party!
Yes. Or at least, any excuse for a bit of drinking...

oh man,you are so funny!

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 04 Nov 2011, 20:43

Lonestar wrote:...Or at least, any excuse for a bit of drinking...

persunshop wrote:oh man, you are so funny!

I try.

persunshop · Post by **persunshop** » 05 Nov 2011, 01:09

Lonestar wrote:
Lonestar wrote:...Or at least, any excuse for a bit of drinking...
persunshop wrote:oh man, you are so funny!
I try.

then you must be drunk!if you drink a bit of drinking

Ant · Post by **Ant** » 05 Nov 2011, 04:27

I remember when I was a young lad growing up and November 5-bonfire night was always the next biggest celebration to Christmas. Building a fire and making an effigy of Guy Fawkes, and then standing on the street corner asking for a penny for the "Guy", so that we could buy fireworks.
Halloween however was never really celebrated at all. there was nothing in the local shops to buy and there were certainly no parties. not where I grew up anyway. That started to change in the early 80's with a lot of halloween stuff being shown in American films, trick or treating and pumpkins etc (I had never heard of trick or treat till about 1983) and it started to take off here as well. now it has just become one more money making exercise with not many people realising why halloween is celebrated at all.

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 05 Nov 2011, 07:34

persunshop wrote:
Lonestar wrote:
Lonestar wrote:...Or at least, any excuse for a bit of drinking...
persunshop wrote:oh man, you are so funny!
I try.
then you must be drunk!if you drink a bit of drinking

Persunshop, how is it that you have 0 next to your post count despite making several posts?? Anyone know the answer

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 05 Nov 2011, 13:19

persunshop wrote:oh man, you are so funny!

Lonestar wrote:I try.

persunshop wrote:then you must be drunk!if you drink a bit of drinking

Oh, I was almost, when I wrote that. Needed to take the edge off a wearisome week. And, to celebrate my son's third child, who finally arrived at 11:14 PDT [1614 UTC/GMT] today.

StephenKingman wrote:Persunshop, how is it that you have 0 next to your post count despite making several posts?? Anyone know the answer

I was wondering the same thing. Can someone take a look into the forum software?

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 05 Nov 2011, 16:01

I saw a pic on the internet of a dummy someone made and put in their yard, it had a pumpkin head and they had it throwing up into a toilet. Ive been there a few times after a night of drunken debauchery, I think even one Halloween.

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 06 Nov 2011, 06:26

I only learned last week that pumpkins can grow indefinitely in the right conditions, they dont mature at a certain size! We have an annual competition in Cavan, Ireland, for the biggest pumpkin, some are so huge they need a forklift to lift them, madness

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 06 Nov 2011, 09:23

Wow, how would you like to carve that into a Jack-o-lantern? I saw one that big at the county fair in Salt Lake once, they used mink dump for fertilizer.

persunshop · Post by **persunshop** » 07 Nov 2011, 03:31

Persunshop, how is it that you have 0 next to your post count despite making several posts?? Anyone know the answer

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hi,StephenKingman! yes,it is really strange that i have 0 next to your post count despite making several posts, i think there must be some error in the forum process!

-- 07 Nov 2011, 04:35 --

Lonestar wrote:
persunshop wrote:oh man, you are so funny!
Lonestar wrote:I try.
persunshop wrote:then you must be drunk!if you drink a bit of drinking
Oh, I was almost, when I wrote that. Needed to take the edge off a wearisome week. And, to celebrate my son's third child, who finally arrived at 11:14 PDT [1614 UTC/GMT] today.

StephenKingman wrote:Persunshop, how is it that you have 0 next to your post count despite making several posts?? Anyone know the answer
I was wondering the same thing. Can someone take a look into the forum software?

Lonestar,you are a good man! i think the same reason with you!there must be some problem with the forum software!

-- 07 Nov 2011, 04:36 --

Bighuey wrote:I saw a pic on the internet of a dummy someone made and put in their yard, it had a pumpkin head and they had it throwing up into a toilet. Ive been there a few times after a night of drunken debauchery, I think even one Halloween.

hi,Bighuey! it is so funny!