Day of Halloween

Day of Halloween

Unit 3

More than 2500 years ago, in europa there existed the Celts, whose year was ending exactly in a date that was coinciding with October 31 of our current calendar, and that was the summer end.

This day precisely the spirits could go out of the cemeteries and take possession of the living bodies to "resuscitate", that's why one was joining the cattle in the stables and there were decorated the houses with bones, skulls and other unpleasant things to scare the dead persons and that will go on from length in the houses.

The priests Celtas, called Druids they were adoring to a macabre divinity called Samhain (pronouncing Sa-ma) to who the current Christians link with his Satan.

Samhain in the language Gaelic means "summer End" and is celebrated coincidentally with our Gregorian calendar on October 31 and supposedly on this day the laws of the time and the space they are suspended temporarily and the barrier of the worlds disappears, therefore this day is propitious so that the spirits enter our world.

His celebration begins with the twilight of October 31, and the Sun and his step commemorates, also, the symbolic death of the God to the summer Earth, doing that the days become shorter and the longer and longer nights.

Comment: Here in Venezuela the tradition for this date we do disguises holidays and in the shopping centers they adorn them.