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Halloween’s origins can be traced back to antiquity.
Most point to Samhain, a Celtic festival which commemorated the end of the harvest season and the blurring of the physical and spirit worlds, as Halloween’s forebear.
Over the ages, the holiday evolved, taking on Christian influences, European myth and American consumerism.
Today, Halloween is celebrated with trick-or-treating, costumes, jack-o-lanterns and scary movies — all things which would likely be unrecognizable to those who took part in the holiday’s earliest forms.
Ancient Times: Halloween Begins as Samhain
Ancient Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, marked Samhain at the midpoint between the fall equinox and the winter solstice.
During this time of year, hearth fires in family homes were left to burn out while the harvest was gathered.
After the harvest work was complete, celebrants joined with Druid priests to light massive bonfires and pray.
Celts believed that the barrier between the physical and spirit worlds was breachable during Samhain.
It was expected that ancestors might cross over during this time as well, and Celts would dress as animals and monsters so that fairies were not tempted to kidnap them.
10th Century: Samhain Is Christianized
In the seventh century, the Catholic Church established November 1 as All Saints' Day, a day commemorating all the saints of the church.
By the ninth century, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended with and supplanted older Celtic rites.
In A.D. 1000, the church made November 2 All Souls’ Day, a day to honor the dead.
It’s widely believed today that the church was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, church-sanctioned holiday.
The All Saints’ Day celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints’ Day).
The night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, began to be called All-Hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.
Over many centuries, the three holidays — All Saints’ Day, All Souls' Day and Samhain — essentially merged into one: Halloween.
(The Catholic Church still recognizes All Saints’ Day and All Souls' Day today, and some Wiccans and Celtic Reconstructionists commemorate Samhain.)
The Middles Ages: Trick-or-Treating Emerges
In England and Ireland during All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day celebrations, poor people would visit the houses of wealthier families and receive pastries called soul cakes in exchange for a promise to pray for the souls of the homeowners’ dead relatives.
Known as "souling," the practice was later taken up by children, who would go from door to door asking for gifts such as food, money and ale — an early form of trick-or-treating.
19th Century: Jack-o'-Lanterns Take Shape
The practice of carving faces into vegetables became associated with Halloween in Ireland and Scotland around the 1800s.
Jack-o'-lanterns originated from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed “Stingy Jack,” who tricked the Devil and was forced to roam the earth with only a burning coal in a turnip to light his way.
People began to make their own versions of Jack’s lanterns by carving scary faces into turnips or potatoes and placing them into windows or near doors to frighten away Stingy Jack and other wandering evil spirits.
19th Century: Halloween Comes to America — And With It Comes Mischief
With the exception of Catholic-dominated Maryland and some other southern colonies, Halloween celebrations were extremely limited in early America, which was largely Protestant.
It wasn't until the mid-19th century that new immigrants — especially the millions of Irish fleeing the Irish Potato Famine — helped popularize the celebration nationally.
These immigrants celebrated as they did back in their homelands — especially by pulling pranks.
In the late 1800s, common Halloween tricks included placing farmers’ wagons and livestock on barn roofs, uprooting vegetables in backyard gardens and tipping over outhouses.
By the early 20th century, vandalism, physical assaults and sporadic acts of violence were not uncommon on Halloween.
1930s: Haunted Houses Become a Thing in the US
Haunted or spooky public attractions already had some precedent in Europe.
Starting in the 1800s, Marie Tussaud’s wax museum in London featured a “Chamber of Horrors” with decapitated figures from the French Revolution.
In 1915, a British amusement ride manufacturer created an early haunted house, complete with dim lights, shaking floors and demonic screams.
In the U.S., the Great Depression kickstarted the trend. By then, violence around Halloween — no doubt exacerbated by the dire economic conditions — had reached new highs.
Parents, concerned about their children running amok on All Hallows' Eve, organized “haunted houses” or “trails” to keep them off the streets.
1950s: Halloween Costumes Go Mainstream
Costumes and disguises have figured into Halloween celebrations since the holiday's earliest days.
But it wasn't until the mid-20th century that costumes started to look like what we know them as today.
Around the same time, neighborhoods began organizing activities such as haunted houses to keep kids safe and occupied, costumes became more important (and less abstract and scary).
They began to take the form of things children would have seen and enjoyed, like characters from popular radio shows, comics and movies.
In the 1950s, mass-produced box costumes became more affordable, so more kids began to use them to dress up as princesses, mummies, clowns or more specific characters like Batman and Frankenstein’s monster.
1980s: Fears About Poisoned Halloween Candy Reach New Heights
While in general, the fears about poisoned Halloween candy have been overblown, crimes involving poison have occurred.
The most infamous case took place on 31 October 1974.
That’s when a Texas man named Ronald O’Bryan gave cyanide-laced pixie sticks to five children, including his son.
The other children never ate the candy, but his eight-year-old son, Timothy, did — and died soon after.
The paranoia reached new heights in the early 1980s after a rash of Tylenol poisonings in which cyanide-laced acetaminophen was placed on store shelves and sold.
After the Tylenol murders, which are still unsolved, warnings about adulterated Halloween candy increased.
A Hauntingly Good Time: Unpacking the History and Traditions of Halloween and Trick-or-Treating
Halloween is a night synonymous with ghosts, goblins, and copious amounts of candy. It is a beloved autumnal celebration across many parts of the world. While its modern form is often characterized by playful spooks, it also has sugary delights. The roots of Halloween stretch back millennia. They intertwine ancient pagan rituals with Christian observances. And the iconic tradition of…
This recipe round-up of Hallowed dishes, sweets, and treats is not meant for October 31st but for November 6th when the traditional Celtic f
Hey! I saw your sans x pregnant reader post and I really loved it!!
I'm not sure if your requests are open or not but if they are,
What would some of the different Sans (es ) Do with a pregnant reader?
(like just enough to show the baby bump to not be mistaken as just gaining weight but like actually sticking out?)
Clarifications are Preg!Reader fell down the hope pregnant, and let's say for one reason or another, they get into a fight and get some scratches, but then an attack comes and is about to peirece the stomach but the sans (es) stops it, cuz they can sense a second soul in them?
I was hoping maybe the classic 3? (UTsans, UF sans and US sans)
Also sorry if this is all over the place, I have PDD which makes it harder for me to explain my ideas.
((Also if you DO decide to do this, will you tag me? The system hasn't been notifying me when requests or basically any motifs unless I'm mention/tagged, thank you!)
Have a great day/night/afternoon/etc!
I figured you meant that the skellies weren't the dads, but if you meant something else, just tell me! Sorry ^^' and sorry for the very long wait.
I, uh, had some problems and way too many lol.
Anyway! Made them longer to make up for it.
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Soul Cakes Recipe: Samhain Baking to Bless Our Ancestors
Print ShareCopied to clipboard Facebook Pinterest X Jump to Recipe As autumn deepens and the season of Samhain approaches, we find ourselves in a liminal space—a time when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead grows thin. Samhain, celebrated on the night of October 31st (in the Northern Hemisphere), has long been regarded as a time for honoring the dead, connecting with…