How Halloween Has Changed

Halloween: the holiday where as kids we couldn’t wait to go door to door to achieve the golden goal of a full bag of candy. Halloween soon turns into a question mark for teens; in an instant, there is a change of when it is ‘appropriate’ to go trick-or-treating and when you should just move on. Are you the one who thinks Trick-or-treating is lame or the one who still walks around your neighborhood every year -- no matter how many dirty looks you may get. What teenagers decide to do on Halloween varies: going to a party, passing out candy, staying home are a few popular options. Throughout my highschool experience I have been able to witness and experience all different types of halloteens, each with their own traits.

First is the history of Halloween all according to a 2017 article from LiveScience by Benjamin Radford. Around 2,000 years ago in the United Kingdom Ireland, and the northern part of France the people called the Celts started this holiday. They called it Samhain back then instead of Halloween. November 1st marked their new year which resulted in them celebrating on October 31st. The New Year brought wintertime which to them meant death. On the night before winter which was October 31st, they believe that the spirits of the Dead came back. They wore costumes, put on bonfires, burned crops and sacrificed animals. When the Romans

We all remember dressing up for Halloween night as children. Getting together with best friends and competing to see who has the best costume or can collect the most candy. For some, this was the best night of the year. Then there are the children who sit at home and go through the motions of what their parents do. These parents inevitably will carve a generic looking pumpkin and then sit down and hand out candy to kids the remainder of the night. The children that are staying at home with their parents are handing out candy to the kids who are living and enjoying their Halloween. As Mac Hammond in “Halloween” stresses, the children that are out having fun on Halloween are the true

Thesis Statement: How Halloween has evolved from what it once was to what is now.

I’ve moved past the edgy “oh god you’re dead” and “oh haha she’s totally insane look at all those bloods” horror to a more psychological, PT, “oh god that plant’s looking at me weird nevermind it’s my brain” horror. Or so I think, anyways. Either way, horror stories are something I enjoy making, which Halloween is infamous for. During the days following up to Halloween, people are making more and more horror stories, which I indulge in. Of course, the good needs to be separated from the garbage, and I worry in fear about the dark

The fear of Halloween can stem from a dislike or fear of the holiday's history. The root word of samhainophobia is Samhain, which is a Celtic word meaning summer’s end. They celebrated Samhain with huge bonfires where crops and animals were sacrificed. The Celts believed that on Samhain the veil between the land of the living and dead was thin, which allowed for ghost, spirits, and the devil himself to pass through to the land of the living. It was also believed the Druids-the Celts priest-could predict the future on Samhain. The Celts wore costumes both as disguises and for performing the sacrifices at the bonfires. Eventually Rome conquered the

Halloween is the point at which you cut Jack o' Lanterns out of pumpkins, design the house with a ghoulish topic, parties, and go trap or treating way to entryway wearing ensembles. Halloween is praised by both kids and grown-ups. Kids spruce up in

[3]During, Samhain (sow-in), the tribal people would pay tribute to their conquerors and then the ancient mounds might reveal the magnificent palaces of the gods of the underworld. differences as well. Basically, both the festival of Samhain (sow-in) and our present day Halloween involved costumes and they were both celebrated in the fall. The differences, however, outnumber the similarities. Costumes had change from a disguise that was terrifying to the eye and fearful to costumes made in a factory somewhere that is sometimes at an outrageous price. Girls costumes have changed the most, they used to cover your whole body to something skimpy and ridiculous. For example, a sexy Donald Trump costume….it even sounds ridiculous. In Conclusion, Halloween has changed over the years but some traditions have remained the same but not for the same

Now I know this is off topic of what I normally blog about.So don't get all mad at me cuz I'm not blogging about what I normally blog about, cuz I don't wanna hear you complaining that I'm not blogging about what I normally blog about. I don't have time for that. So as you can tell from the title I will be talking about halloween. Halloween is the one time where you can dress up as whatever you want. You also get free candy from random people. Every year our school has this halloween dance. At this halloween dance you go and and hang out with your friends. You can either go to the halloween dance in your costume or bring your costume and get dressed at the dance.

Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated on the 31st of October across the globe. The holiday originated ancient Celtic. Celts lived 2000 years ago in the areas which are now Ireland, Northern France, and the United Kingdom. They had a similar celebration called Samhain. Samhain was celebrated on the 1st of November rather than the 31st of October. Throughout the centuries Halloween traditions have changed drastically. To see what a difference Halloween is now to back in time we must examine what traditions and celebrations were done, secondly how we celebrate the famously known holiday and finally what people have against the celebrations and traditions to this day.

Halloween has gone through many changes since it first began. Once, Halloween was a grave time and considered a foreboding sign of the coming of winter. However, over the centuries Halloween has been modernized into a fun and festive time of year for many people, especially for Americans. People of all ages are all able to contribute to Halloween. Millions of Americans spend massive amounts of money every year on Halloween decorations, costumes, and candy.

Over the years Halloween has drastically changed for me as far as how I celebrate it. My mother raised my brothers, sister and I as Jehovah’s Witness, so growing up we really did not get to participate in any sort of activities that involved the concept of Halloween. In school, we would be removed from the classroom and put into a separate classroom to read or to do homework, because the whole class was doing some sort of activity or creating Halloween deportations to take home. So probably throughout all of elementary school, this was how it was celebrated in my family. As we got older, my older brother married and had a baby; well his wife celebrated all the holidays and did what was “normal” for the holidays. So as we were surrounded by her and her family we slowly started to do go trick or treating with my niece and helping her pick out a costume. So we kind of started to do what was normal, we wanted to fit in. I remember that all the kids in elementary school would ask why I was put into a separate classroom. More towards the time I got to high school and graduated, we really started to participate more and actually dress up. My mother never really got offended. But she would ask why we would dress up? I think as I got older I just changed my mind set and just did what I wanted to do. Even up to know I do not have a

Halloween is celebrated October 31st. Halloween is a short of saying All Hallows’ Evening, and All Hallows’ Eve. Some halloween activities are trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting “haunted houses” and carving jack-o-lanterns. Scottish, and Irish people carried traditions to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries loved this holiday in the later twentieth century along with Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.

Today in America, the tradition of wearing costumes on Halloween is more about fun, and going door to door to collect candy instead of hiding from sprits that were once thought to roam

Furthermore, there are many traditional rituals and superstitions associated with Halloween. Since the ancient Celts thought the nonliving roamed the earth, they created costumes out of animal pelts to ward off evil spirits. Fortunetelling and the utilization of large bonfires for sacrifices and purification were also early customs. After the Christianization of the holiday to commemorate saints and martyrs, the same festivities, bonfires, and guising remained, but October 31st was renamed All-Hallows Eve. This inevitably turned into Halloween. Similar to European traditions, America’s Halloween has also evolved throughout the years. Halloween’s recognition was originally restricted in colonial America due to its non-Christian beliefs and practices, and it was practiced at a more local level. According to an online source, “The first celebrations included ‘play parties,’ public events held to celebrate the harvest, where neighbors would share stories of the dead and tell each other’s fortunes, dance, and sing” (“History of Halloween”). Festivities were akin to European traditions, but also included ghost stories and pranking. Beginning in the twentieth century, Halloween