All of us have eagerly waited for Halloween to arrive, in our childhoods, for the candies and chocolates we were supposed to get that day. However, Halloween is not just about the candies and chocolates. Halloween is an annual holiday on the 31st of October and it includes a lot of fun activities like costume parties, trick or treating, carving the jack-o-lanterns, apple bobbing, bonfires, playing pranks, visiting haunted places, telling each other scary stories, watching horror films etc. Some folklorists believe that Halloween has its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona or maybe in the festival of the dead which is known as "Parentalia." However, some say it is more typically related to the Celtic festival called as "Samhain". Though, there a lot of alternate stories to the origin of this festival, which is usually celebrated to scare people, but are in fact not true.
There are a lot of images and artifacts that have come to be associated with the festival of Halloween over the years. The carving of the pumpkins into lanterns is believed to be associated with the remembrance of the souls that are held in purgatory. The images of Halloween are sourced from popular horror and Gothic literature like Frankenstein and Dracula and also from horror movies like Frankenstein, The Mummy and Dracula. The imagery of Halloween includes a variety of themes such as evil, death, the occult and also of mythical monsters. The traditional colors of the Halloween festival are black and orange.
The Halloween festival is specially a fun time for the children. They go from house to house in scary costumes and asking for treats such as candies or sometimes money also by saying 'trick or treat' where trick is just an idle threat to the owner of the home saying that a trick or a prank maybe be performed on the owner or on the homeowner's property if no treat is given. Halloween costumes generally revolve around themes such as supernatural creatures like witches, monsters, ghosts, devils and skeletons, but the selection of costumes extends to include any popular characters from fiction and nonfiction, comic book heroes like ninja, princesses etc. Movie characters are also famous among individuals and some also dress as characters from Harry Potter, Shrek, Twilight series, Justice League, Superman, Batman, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Avatar and anything and everything that you want to dress up as.
By Yogini Bhambhani
There are a lot of images and artifacts that have come to be associated with the festival of Halloween over the years. The carving of the pumpkins into lanterns is believed to be associated with the remembrance of the souls that are held in purgatory. The images of Halloween are sourced from popular horror and Gothic literature like Frankenstein and Dracula and also from horror movies like Frankenstein, The Mummy and Dracula. The imagery of Halloween includes a variety of themes such as evil, death, the occult and also of mythical monsters. The traditional colors of the Halloween festival are black and orange.
The Halloween festival is specially a fun time for the children. They go from house to house in scary costumes and asking for treats such as candies or sometimes money also by saying 'trick or treat' where trick is just an idle threat to the owner of the home saying that a trick or a prank maybe be performed on the owner or on the homeowner's property if no treat is given. Halloween costumes generally revolve around themes such as supernatural creatures like witches, monsters, ghosts, devils and skeletons, but the selection of costumes extends to include any popular characters from fiction and nonfiction, comic book heroes like ninja, princesses etc. Movie characters are also famous among individuals and some also dress as characters from Harry Potter, Shrek, Twilight series, Justice League, Superman, Batman, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Avatar and anything and everything that you want to dress up as.
By Yogini Bhambhani
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