Does anyone know the halloween story

Question

i use to have the artice of how halloween began , i think someone , lost it , or confisgated it years ago , but im trying to find the story again , its my favorite time of the year !!!

Answer 1

Halloween (Hallowe'en, Hallowtide, Hallowmas, Allhallow-even) is short for "All Hallows Even" which means "All Saints Eve". It is the eve before All Saints Day, a Catholic day to honor all the saints who do not already have a feast day of their own. All Saints Day was originally celebrated on May 13 when Pope Boniface IV rededicated the Pantheon in Rome to 'St. Mary and All Martyrs' in 609 A.D. It was moved to November 1 in the 8th century when Pope Gregory III dedicated St. Peter's Basilica to all the saints . In 998 A.D. All Souls Day was added as a day to pray for the souls in purgatory and attend a requiem mass.

Folk customs surrounding All Souls are the origin of the belief that the dead come back on Halloween. People would visit cemeteries, decorate relatives' graves, and leave food offerings for the dead. In some areas they would set a place at the table or arrange chairs around the fireplace for the returning souls of the dead. In Ireland people would also sometimes leave food for the fairies (divine or semi-divine beings who could be dangerous, and not the little creatures with wings that we think of today).

Samhain had an influence on Halloween in Ireland, and that is the version that turned into what we know as Halloween today. (Traditional All Saints/All Souls celebrations have also continued in parts of Europe).

Samhain is mentioned in numerous medeival Irish sagas as a day of great importance. It was a day of feasting, games, drinking, great battles, heroic feats and interaction between mortals and the realm of the fairies (gods and goddesses). In Ireland the customs that are associated with Halloween are the same as the ones mentioned in the sagas as being part of Samhain: divination, partying, the belief that the fairies mingle with humans on this night. Today 'Samhain' is the Irish word for the month of November. Oiche Shamnha is Irish for Halloween; it means the "eve of Saman (Samhain)" or the "eve of November 1". The name is like July 4th in the United States in that it is both the name of the holiday and the date.

Although the Irish version of Halloween is the one that was eventually adopted in the United States, when it was brought over in the nineteenth century, All Saints and All Souls celebrations in the Americas can be traced back to the arrival of the Spanish and French missionaries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Native Americans adopted these traditions and combined them with their native celebrations. These feast days are still celebrated today as Mexico's Day of the Dead, the Zuni ahoppa awan tewa, the Odawa Ghost Supper, shuma sashti, and other native celebrations.

In the nineteenth century, vast numbers of Irish, and to a lesser extent Scottish, immigrants settled in the United States and brought their Halloween customs with them. Unlike the more solemn, purely Catholic observance of All Saints/All Souls Day typical in continental Europe, the Irish version was more of a fun harvest festival in nature. Victorian-era Americans quickly adopted this holiday as an excuse to throw parties, send greeting cards, and perform lighthearted divination spells to determine the identity of one's future spouse.

Halloween is now considered an American holiday. In some places it is celebrated in conjunction with the more soloemn All Saints/All Souls Day celebrations, in some places it is separate, and in others it has evolved into a completely distinct holiday, such as Mexico's Day of the Dead.

(I usually include a lot more sources, but the new YA says I can only include 10 now.)

Answer 2

we made it holoween after the mexican hollyday "the day of the dead"