Halloween?
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 at
2:33 pm
How did people originally celebrate halloween a long time ago? How did they decorate their houses? What did they do? What did they believe in?
I don’t want to hear "they sacrificed things to the devil" cuz i know its not true, and I dont want to hear "they got dressed up and went door to door for candy" cuz thats not the origin of it.
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They burn something to praise the Satan.. And they believe, that they have to give something to Satan so the Satan will not distrub their life..
A LONG, LONG time ago, when I was kid, we would get dressed up and people would invite you into their houses to guess who you were. Then they’d see your mom standing outside and pretend they still didn’t know you!! The churches would usually have a Halloween party to keep the kids off the street. We made dummies and set them on the porch, but we didn’t have all these new fangled lights and everything. There were always a few kids that would go out and do devilment. That’s why it is usually held in the daylight hours now, plus all the kidnappings and stuff. I personally don’t like Halloween anymore because I saw a tape of some of the awful, awful things that people do: making sacrifices and such.. It’s not for me.
Halloween originally was celebrated among the druidic faiths as Samaine or Walpurgisnacht. It eventually got attached to the Liturgical Feast Day of All Saints’ Day.
Forbidden to celebrate pagan feasts, Christians took some of the basic elements of the old feast, and dressed up the night before November First.
The ancients believed that the night opened the doorway for evil spirits to walk the earth. Some Christians believed that the spirits of the dead became restless on the eve of All Saints or All Hallowed. The name stuck, and the night before became All Hallows Eve, later Halloween. The oldest celebrations came out of Europe as a feast to commemorate the final harvest. Stacks of the harvest were stacked and sometimes burned to scare away evil,
and people would dance around the fires shouting to ward away bad spirits. Trading gifts of food, and inviting others to meals later translated into giving treats to visitors, especially children. For Christians, after the mischief of the night before, the dawn meant moderation, and prayer for the intercession of the saints, and more prayers, the next day, for departed souls–thus All Souls’ Day, November 2. B.