It 's that time of year when the leaves begin to fall, and fruits and vegetables hanging on the vine, fresh air, ghosts and zombies rising from the grave. So Halloween is upon us again, and then seasonal tradition, the children dressed in spooky costumes and make a suggestion or a year ago to learn their inner goblins and candy to unleash - dogs. But if you are carving pumpkins and sewing costumes, candy or chowing down, you know there's a story behind this event, and can use the celebration as an opportunity to know what their children use real Halloween and how will a national holiday celebrated on the first place.Halloween can say, born in Europe, but not just a particular region. In fact, one of the traditions of different cultures and the measures taken to combine the holiday that we see today are merging. October 31 (after a couple of days), Celts celebrated Samhain, meaning Summer's End "in Gaelic. They believed that it is easier to hit in this time of year the spirits in our world, and wearing clothes afraid to merge with the spirits (and our modern tradition of teams in direct). On the other hand, often carved pumpkins or turnips as lanterns with scary faces to ward off evil spirits (this should sound familiar if you have more years of pumpkin carving practice ) to be cut.
In early November, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of All Saints, which is followed in the second Memorial Day in November. This festival aims to be a party and all the saints (and those who have reached the sky) and went all the souls of the faithful, but have not yet reached the sky. Unlike Samhain, it was believed that the spirits of the dead among us, it was the Catholic party in the belief that this is a time to meet this community was the belief that if they live in heaven or the rest of purgatory. This festival is celebrated by different cultures around the world: Western practitioners and often only offered at the graves of their loved ones (flowers, cards, etc) into memory, to be held in Mexico on Dia de los Muertos (Day de los Muertos) to honor the souls of dead children, the candy is so often a part of the celebration.
You see, Halloween, and the markets in time and in any case has its roots in historical and cultural practices. Press cutting pumpkins scary costumes to collect candy in honor of those who were before you, it's a little tradition 'in all aspects of the modern party. And if you want your kids everything out of it more than a night of fun and a bag of candy, you can use the season as a time to show a few lessons in terms of what it really is the scariest of all holidays