October… The most scary month of the year. In the United Kingdom, inhabitants pay a lot of attention to Halloween. Every 31st of October, people get on the street to celebrate Halloween. Some people organize a costume party, children go from house to house to collect candy and other things. This is called ‘Trick or treat’. The night of the 31st October, is the only night in the year that ghosts, witches and wizards are able to come and sneak around. Some people believe in it, other think it’s superstition.
In our country, people aren’t as motivated as the inhabitants of the UK. We go on organized strolls, where people, hidden in scary costumes, can frighten us. The fact that children in our society aren’t going trick or treating is due to the parents, who believe that children aren’t safe anymore. During the night, criminals and bad people, walk on the streets, and they could hurt their little babies.
All this started during the period the Celts were alive. It’s a habit created by them, they celebrated the dead with a pre-Christian festival. Their calendar was different from ours, our year starts on January the first, theirs on November the first. For them , the first marked the beginning of the winter.
The festival was called Samhain, the Celts believed that during the festival the ghosts and spirits of the dead were able to come in our world and could join our life.
These days, people don't believe anymore in the stories of ghosts who come and get you. They all believe that it's superstition. Only few of them still think that ghosts do exist.
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