Halloween

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HALLOWEEN
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ORIGINS OF HALLOWEEN

• While there are many versions of the origins and
  old customs of Halloween, some remain consistent
  by all accounts. Different cultures view
  Halloween somewhat differently but traditional
  Halloween practices remain the same.

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• Halloween culture can be traced back to the
  Druids, a Celtic culture in Ireland, Britain and
  Northern Europe.
• Roots lay in the feast of Samhain, which was
  annually on October 31st to honor the dead.

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• Samhain signifies "summers end" or November.
• Samhain was a harvest festival with huge sacred
  bonfires, marking the end of the Celtic year and
  beginning of a new one.

Many of the practices involved in this
celebration were fed on
superstition.
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• The Celts believed the souls of the dead roamed
  the streets and villages at night.
• Since not all spirits were thought to be
  friendly, gifts and treats were left out to
  pacify the evil and ensure next years crops would
  be plentiful.
• This custom evolved into trick-or-treating.

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FOOD
Give Me Something Good To Eat is a fun Halloween
themed song that incorporates the traditional
Trick or Treat? rhyme with different foods and
tastes. It has all of the traditional Halloween
treats you would think of (candy, lollipops,
chocolate, apples), but it also introduces other
foods and adjectives, such as peaches and
grapefruits, sweet and sour.
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Whenever there is a part that is meant to be
scary, like "boo!," say it loud and jump. It will
add to the spooktacular effect.
The food is typical Halloween popcorn, pumpkin
pie and caramel apples.
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SYMBOLS
Development of artifacts and symbols associated
with Halloween formed over time. For instance,
the carving of jack-o'-lanterns springs from the
souling custom of carving turnips into lanterns
as a way of remembering the souls held in
purgatory. The turnip has traditionally been used
in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween, but
immigrants to North America used the native
pumpkin, which are both readily available and
much larger  making them easier to carve than
turnips. The American tradition of carving
pumpkins is recorded in 1837 and was originally
associated with harvest time in general, not
becoming specifically associated with Halloween
until the mid-to-late 19th century.
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CatsEgyptians considered cats sacred and their
Goddess Bast was considered the divine Mother of
all cats. This Goddess was believed to live in
the city of Bubastis, which was also considered
sacred and was well known for its elaborate
festivals and joyous festivities. Greek Goddess
resembling Bast was known as Artemis, while the
Roman Goddess with similar traits was known as
Diana. In the Middle Ages, Diana was thought to
be the Queen of Witches and thus, cats were
thought to be related to witchcraft and
considered as common pets of the witches. Today,
cats have become one of the popular emblems of
Halloween and black cat is often associated with
misfortune and ill omens.MasksIn the ancient
ages, Egyptians often used masks to impersonate
their deities. Their art included elaborate masks
that cover the entire face of the wearer, who
were believed to embody the deities and
divinities and anyone who wearing such a mask was
believed to manifest these pagan deities in human
form. Mask was known in Teutonic as 'Grim', which
was also a common part of the names of the
deities. In Medieval ages, Christian churches
forbade wearing of masks, to avoid such
practices, but people continued to wear them on
pagan festivals and the celebrations adopted in
Christianity, such as Halloween and
Carnivals.OwlsOwl represents the Wise Woman of
the village, also known as cunning healer and
Herb mother or Crone of the village. It had once
been associated with myriad forms of Goddess of
Wisdom and Mortality, such as Athene, Anath,
Blodeuwedd, Lilith, Minerva and Mari (the Goddess
having eyes like an owl and who seems to stare).
Mari could take the shape of the owl at will too.
Today, owls are associated with witches,
especially at Halloween. Harry Potter's world
created by J. K. Rowling also portrays owls being
the pets of witches and wizards and used by them
as means of communication.
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Laura Carmona López Andrea Pérez Tomás Hernández
Pastor