Halloween is a holiday a lot of people love it is the one time of year you can dress as whoever you want. There might be a lot more to this spooky holiday than you think. You ever sit back on those spooky night and wonder how Halloween became the holiday it is, or how they celebrated this holiday. Some people think this holiday is for satan and is not a good holiday but what was it really about? In this paper I'm going to be telling you how it all began, some interesting facts, and what they did during WWII. Halloween started in Ireland, but it wasn’t Halloween it was a Celtic Festival called Samhain. Samhain was celebrated more than two thousand years ago in County Meath. It was believed to be a time of transition to them the veil of this …show more content…
The legends of the jack-o’-lanterns is that Jack was actually a person. Jack used to be a night watchman who carried a lantern around to chase off unsavory night characters. Another legend of Jack is that he had trapped the devil in a pumpkin. After Jack caught the devil his demon like face showed through the pumpkin which gives us the looks of the jack-o’-lantern. After all that jack did people started to use jack-o’lanterns to keep the evil that walked the earth on Halloween away. Here is something really weird, but i think it is interesting. On Halloween if you don’t have a pumpkin to make a jack-o’-lantern just carve a turnip instead. It is tradition to carve a turnip instead of a pumpkin in Ireland and Scotland. The reason is they didn’t know about pumpkins, making good jack-o’lanterns, because pumpkins are native to North America. Immigrants realized in about mid 1800’s that pumpkins were much softer and way easier to carve than turnips. In the late 1800’s kids would dress up and go guising. Guising is what trick or treating was originally called. When these kids went guising they would get coins, fruits and cakes. Trick or treat didn’t come about till almost one hundred later in the United States. People in the Philippines on November second would celebrate All Souls Day. On this day Filipino children used to walk from house to house and sing hymns for all the souls lost that