Halloween is a rather cool time of year with people dressing up in all kinds of costumes, but are you aware of its origins?
To understand where it comes from, we need to go to Scotland, as it has its roots in the traditional Pagan religion back in ancient history. Back then, it was referred to as All Hallows or All Saints day, with them being celebrated on October 31st. This also then coincided with a very important date for the Celtic religion, which is ancient in its origins. It was a day known as Samhain which roughly translates as ‘Feast of the Dead’, so you can start to see where it all comes from.
That date was seen in Celtic tradition as being the point where the spirits of the dead could come back to the land of the living for a number of reasons with one of those reasons being to terrify those that were still alive. Ultimately, the two different traditions were combined later on in history to provide us with Halloween, although it is certainly regarded as being less scary and spooky than what it once was thanks to kids going out to trick or treat.