Halloween, what use to be an ancient celtic holiday of Samhain is now a more modern way of celebrating with carving pumpkins. Walking around your neighborhood in a costume and getting free candy, now celebrates less about the ghost and ghouls. The Harvest season which is called Celts use to be a day to mark the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the winter day. The people believed that this was the day were transition between season was a bridge to the dead. As time went on Halloween has evolved and now we see Halloween as a festive day.

Believing that the dead would return as ghost, 2,000 years Samhain was celebrated on a night before the beginning of November. Fearing that the ghost would come, people would leave food and wine on the doorstep to keep them away, and even something as simple as leaving the house, the people would put mask on to be mistaken as a fellow ghost. Samhain name soon changed by the Christian church, which they call it “A Saint Day” or “All Hallow.” In the 8th century the night before was called Hallow Eve which eventually shortened to Halloween. A pastry known as soul cakes was something peasants would beg for during this time period on a day called Soul’s Day. In return the peasants would pray for the dead relatives, but not everyone would do that. Some would dress in costumes and sing, do poetry, or even tell jokes.

What used to be called Souling and Guising. in the 19th century the Irish and Scottish immigrants revive this tradition renaming it Trick-or-Treat, which around this time was mostly about the trick. As you can see Halloween has changed during the year, now we spend about 2.5 billion people spent on costume and 6 billion overall.