Halloween

Halloween

Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I love fall. Halloween is about celebrating All Hallows Day. When you celebrate Halloween most people dress up their kids or even dress up themselves, carve pumpkins, make a face on the pumpkin, and put a candle in the center of the pumpkin, and then at night time, you would be able to see what you carved on the pumpkin. Some people don’t like going trick or treating because you have to walk around. Other people might not carve pumpkins or set out candy for trick-or-treaters and they stay inside and watch horror movies. Personally, I'm one of those people, but I always get stuck handing out candy.

In my opinion, fall is the best season out of all of them because Halloween is my favorite holiday, and not only that I have an excuse to stay up late and watch horror movies. Other than that, I like spending time with my mom and brothers, well just family in general.

It’s an amazing day to get your costumes out and be a different person, even look and talk like a different person if you want to. Not only that, if you are a parent and need a break from your kiddos, send them to one of your family members' houses to go trick or treating, and you could even take a nap, clean the house, clean their rooms, do laundry, etc.

The tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain when the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. The celebration of Halloween in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there. Halloween was much more common in Maryland and the southern colonies. In the eighth century this holiday was believed to be the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain because when people would have bonfires, they would dress up in costumes to ward off ghosts.

By: Aubri Swanson