This article is about the holiday. For other uses, see
Halloween (disambiguation).
Halloween
A
Jack-o'-lanternAlso called All Hallows’ Eve
All Saints’ Eve
Samhain
Observed by
Around the worldDate October 31
Celebrations
Parades,
FestivalsObservances Costume parties, trick-or-treating, carving pumpkins, ghost tours, haunted attractions, bonfires, divination, apple bobbing, fireworks displays
Related to
Samhain,
All Saints’ Day(
cf.
vigils)
Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual
holiday observed on
October 31, which commonly includes activities such as
trick-or-treating, attending
costume parties, carving
jack-o'-lanterns,
bonfires,
apple bobbing, visiting
haunted attractions, playing
pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films. The ancient festival originated in Ireland and Scotland as the pagan Celtic harvest festival, Samhain.
[1] Irish and Scottish immigrants brought older versions of the tradition to North America and elsewhere in the 19th century, making it popular worldwide today.
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1 History1.1 Origin of name2 Symbols3 Trick-or-treating and guising3.1 Costumes3.2 UNICEF4 Games and other activities5 Haunted attractions6 Foods7 Around the world8 Religious perspectives8.1 Christianity8.2 Paganism9 See also10 References11 Further reading12 External linksHistory
Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of
Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the
festival of the dead called
Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the
Celtic festival of
Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)".
[5] The name of the festival historically kept by the
Gaels and Celts in the
British Isles is derived from
Old Irishand means roughly "summer's end".
[5][6][7]According to the Oxford Dictionary of English folk lore: "Certainly Samhain was a time for festive gatherings, and medieval Irish texts and later Irish, Welsh, and Scottish folklore use it as a setting for supernatural encounters, but there is no evidence that it was connected with the dead in pre-Christian times, or that pagan religious ceremonies were held."
[8]The Irish myths which mention Samhain were written in the 10th and 11th centuries by Christian monks. This is around 200 years after the Catholic church inaugurated All Saints Day and at least 400 years after Ireland became Christian.
[8]
Snap-Apple Night (1832) by
Daniel Maclise.
Depicts
apple bobbing and
divination games at a Halloween party in
Blarney, Ireland.
Origin of name
The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before
All Hallows Day.
[9] Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556.
[9]Symbols
Jack-o'-lanterns in
Kobe,
JapanDevelopment 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
turnipsinto lanterns as a way of remembering the
souls held in
purgatory.
[10] The turnip has traditionally been used in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween,
[11][12] but immigrants to North America used the native
pumpkin, which are both readily available and much larger – making them easier to carve than turnips.
[11] The American tradition of carving pumpkins is recorded in 1837
[13]and was originally associated with harvest time in general, not becoming specifically associated with Halloween until the mid-to-late 19th century.
[14]The
imagery of Halloween is derived from many sources, including national customs, works of
Gothic and
horror literature (such as the novels
Frankenstein and
Dracula), and classic horror films (such as
Frankenstein and
The Mummy).
[15] Among the earliest works on the subject of Halloween is from Scottish poet
John Mayne in 1780, who made note of pranks at Halloween; "What fearfu' pranks ensue!", as well as the supernatural associated with the night, "Bogies" (ghosts), influencing
Robert Burns'
Halloween 1785.
[16]Elements of the autumn season, such as pumpkins, corn
husks, and
scarecrows, are also prevalent. Homes are often decorated with these types of symbols around Halloween.
Halloween imagery includes themes of
death,
evil, the
occult, or mythical
monsters.
[17] Black and orange are the holiday's traditional colors.
Trick-or-treating and guising
Main article:
Trick-or-treating
Trick-or-treating in
SwedenTrick-or-treating is a customary celebration for children on Halloween. Children go in costume from house to house, asking for treats such as candy or sometimes money, with the question, "Trick or treat?" The word "trick" refers to a (mostly idle) "threat" to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given. In some parts of Scotland children still go
guising. In this custom the child performs some sort of trick, i.e. sings a song or tells a ghost story, to earn their treats.
The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays dates back to the
Middle Ages and includes
Christmas wassailing. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of
souling, when poor folk would go door to door on
Hallowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on
All Souls' Day (November 2). It originated in Ireland and Britain,
[18] although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy.
[19] Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed accuses his master of "puling [whimpering or whining] like a beggar at Hallowmas."
[20]In Scotland and Ireland, Guising — children disguised in costume going from door to door for food or coins — is a traditional Halloween custom, and is recorded in Scotland at Halloween in 1895 where masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit and money.
[12] The practise of Guising at Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911, where a newspaper in
Kingston, Ontario reported children going "guising" around the neighborhood.
[21]American historian and author
Ruth Edna Kelley of Massachusetts wrote the first book length history of the holiday in the U.S; The Book of Hallowe'en (1919), and references souling in the chapter "Hallowe'en in America";
The taste in Hallowe'en festivities now is to study old traditions, and hold a Scotch party, using
Burn's poem Hallowe'en as a guide; or to go a-souling as the English used. In short, no custom that was once honored at Hallowe'en is out of fashion now.
[22]
Halloween in
Yonkers, New York, US
In her book, Kelley touches on customs that arrived from across the Atlantic; "Americans have fostered them, and are making this an occasion something like what it must have been in its best days overseas. All Hallowe'en customs in the United States are borrowed directly or adapted from those of other countries".
[23]While the first reference to "guising" in North America occurs in 1911, another reference to ritual begging on Halloween appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third reference in Chicago in 1920.
[24]The earliest known use in print of the term "trick or treat" appears in 1927, from
Blackie, Alberta, Canada:
Hallowe’en provided an opportunity for real strenuous fun. No real damage was done except to the temper of some who had to hunt for wagon wheels, gates, wagons, barrels, etc., much of which decorated the front street. The youthful tormentors were at back door and front demanding edible plunder by the word “trick or treat” to which the inmates gladly responded and sent the robbers away rejoicing.
[25]The thousands of Halloween postcards produced between the turn of the 20th century and the 1920s commonly show children but do not depict trick-or-treating.
[26] The editor of a collection of over 3,000 vintage Halloween postcards writes, "There are cards which mention the custom [of trick-or-treating] or show children in costumes at the doors, but as far as we can tell they were printed later than the 1920s and more than likely even the 1930s. Tricksters of various sorts are shown on the early postcards, but not the means of appeasing them".
[27]Trick-or-treating does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the first U.S. appearances of the term in 1934,
[28]and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939.
[29]Costumes
Main article:
Halloween costume
People dressing in Halloween Costumes in
Dublin.
Halloween costumes are traditionally modeled after supernatural figures such as monsters, ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devils. Over time, the costume selection extended to include popular characters from fiction, celebrities, and generic archetypes such as ninjas and princesses.
Dressing up in costumes and going "
guising" was prevalent in Scotland at Halloween by the late 19th century.
[12] Costuming became popular for Halloween parties in the US in the early 20th century, as often for adults as for children. The first mass-produced Halloween costumes appeared in stores in the 1930s when
trick-or-treating was becoming popular in the United States.
Halloween
costume parties generally fall on, or around, 31 October, often falling on the Friday or Saturday prior to Halloween.
UNICEF
Main article:
Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF"Trick-or-Treat for
UNICEF" has become a common sight during Halloween in North America. Started as a local event in a Northeast
Philadelphia neighborhood in 1950 and expanded nationally in 1952, the program involves the distribution of small boxes by schools (or in modern times, corporate sponsors like
Hallmark, at their licensed stores) to trick-or-treaters, in which they can solicit small-change donations from the houses they visit. It is estimated that children have collected more than $118 million for UNICEF since its inception. In Canada, in 2006, UNICEF decided to discontinue their Halloween collection boxes, citing safety and administrative concerns; after consultation with schools, they instead redesigned the program.
[30][31]Games and other activities
In this Halloween greeting card from 1904,
divination is depicted: the young woman looking into a mirror in a darkened room hopes to catch a glimpse of the face of her future husband.
There are several games traditionally associated with Halloween parties. One common game is dunking or apple bobbing, in which apples float in a tub or a large basin of water and the participants must use their teeth to remove an apple from the basin. A variant of dunking involves kneeling on a chair, holding a fork between the teeth and trying to drop the fork into an apple. Another common game involves hanging up treacle or syrup-coated scones by strings; these must be eaten without using hands while they remain attached to the string, an activity that inevitably leads to a very sticky face.
Some games traditionally played at Halloween are forms of divination. A traditional Scottish form of divining one's future spouse is to carve an apple in one long strip, then toss the peel over one's shoulder. The peel is believed to land in the shape of the first letter of the future spouse's name.
[32] Unmarried women were told that if they sat in a darkened room and gazed into a mirror on Halloween night, the face of their future husband would appear in the mirror. However, if they were destined to die before marriage, a
skull would appear. The custom was widespread enough to be commemorated on greeting cards
[33] from the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Another game/superstition that was enjoyed in the early 1900s involved walnut shells. People would write fortunes in milk on white paper. After drying, the paper was folded and placed in walnut shells. When the shell was warmed, milk would turn brown therefore the writing would appear on what looked like blank paper. Folks would also play fortune teller. In order to play this game, symbols were cut out of paper and placed on a platter. Someone would enter a dark room and was ordered to put her hand on a piece of ice then lay it on a platter. Her "fortune" would stick to the hand. Paper symbols included: dollar sign-wealth, button-bachelorhood, thimble-spinsterhood, clothespin- poverty, rice-wedding, umbrella- journey, caldron-trouble, 4-leaf clover- good luck, penny-fortune, ring-early marriage, and key-fame.
[34]The telling of ghost stories and viewing of horror films are common fixtures of Halloween parties. Episodes of television series and Halloween-themed specials (with the specials usually aimed at children) are commonly aired on or before the holiday, while new horror films are often released theatrically before the holiday to take advantage of the atmosphere.
Haunted attractions
Main article:
Haunted attraction
Humorous
tombstones in front of a house in
northern California.
Haunted attractions are entertainment venues designed to thrill and scare patrons. Most attractions are seasonal Halloween businesses. Origins of these paid scare venues are difficult to pinpoint, but it is generally accepted that they were first commonly used by the
Junior Chamber International (Jaycees) for fundraising.
[35] They include haunted houses,
corn mazes, and
hayrides,
[36] and the level of sophistication of the effects has risen as the industry has grown. Haunted attractions in the United States bring in an estimate $300–500 million each year, and draw some 400,000 customers, although press sources writing in 2005 speculated that the industry had reached its peak at that time.
[35] This maturing and growth within the industry has led to more technically-advanced special effects and costuming, comparable with that of Hollywood films.
[37]Foods
Candy appleBecause the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest,
candy apples (known as toffee apples outside North America),
caramel or taffy apples are common Halloween treats made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.
At one time, candy apples were commonly given to children, but the practice rapidly waned in the wake of widespread rumors that some individuals were embedding items like pins and
razor blades in the apples.
[38] While there is evidence of such incidents,
[39] they are quite rare and have never resulted in serious injury. Nonetheless, many parents assumed that such heinous practices were rampant because of the mass media. At the peak of the hysteria, some hospitals offered free X-rays of children's Halloween hauls in order to find evidence of tampering. Virtually all of the few known candy poisoning incidents involved parents who poisoned their own children's candy.
[40]One custom that persists in modern-day Ireland is the baking (or more often nowadays, the purchase) of a
barmbrack (
Irish: báirín breac), which is a light fruitcake, into which a plain ring, a coin and other charms are placed before baking. It is said that those who get a ring will find their true love in the ensuing year. This is similar to the tradition of
king cake at the festival of
Epiphany.
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List of foods associated with the holiday:
Barmbrack (
Ireland)
Bonfire toffee (
Great Britain)
Candy apples/
toffee apples (
Scotland & Ireland)
Candy corn,
candy pumpkins (North America)
Caramel applesCaramel cornColcannon (Ireland)
Novelty candy shaped like skulls,
pumpkins, bats, worms, etc.
Pumpkin, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread
Roasted
pumpkin seedsRoasted
sweet cornSoul cakesAround the world
Main article:
Halloween around the worldHalloween is not celebrated in all countries and regions of the world, and among those that do the traditions and importance of the celebration vary significantly. In Scotland and Ireland, traditional Halloween customs include children dressing up in costume going "guising", holding parties, while other practices in Ireland include lighting bonfires, and having firework displays.
[41][42] Mass transatlantic immigration in the 19th century popularized Halloween in North America, and celebration in the United States and Canada has had a significant impact on how the event is observed in other nations. This larger North American influence, particularly in iconic and commercial elements, has extended to places such as
South America,
Australia,
[43] New Zealand,
[44] continental Europe, Japan, and other parts of East Asia.
[45]Religious perspectives
See also:
All Saints and
SamhainChristianity
Christian attitudes towards Halloween are diverse. In the
Anglican Church, some
dioceses have chosen to emphasize the Christian traditions of All Saints’ Day,
[46][47] while some other Protestants celebrate the holiday as
Reformation Day, a day to remember the
Protestant Reformation.
[48][49] Father
Gabriele Amorth, a
Vatican-appointed
exorcist in Rome, has said, "if English and American children like to dress up as witches and devils on one night of the year that is not a problem. If it is just a game, there is no harm in that."
[50] In more recent years, the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has organized a "Saint Fest" on the holiday.
[51] Similarly, many contemporary Protestant churches view Halloween as a fun event for children, holding events in their churches where children and their parents can dress up, play games, and get candy for free.
Many Christians ascribe no negative significance to Halloween, treating it as a purely secular holiday devoted to celebrating "imaginary spooks" and handing out candy. To these Christians, Halloween holds no threat to the spiritual lives of children: being taught about death and mortality, and the ways of the Celtic ancestors actually being a valuable life lesson and a part of many of their parishioners' heritage.
[52] In the
Roman Catholic Church, Halloween is viewed as having a Christian connection,
[53] and Halloween celebrations are common in Catholic parochial schools throughout North America and in Ireland.
Some Christians feel concerned about Halloween, and reject the holiday because they feel it trivializes – or celebrates –
paganism, the
occult, or other practices and cultural phenomena deemed incompatible with their beliefs.
[54] A response among some
fundamentalist and conservative
evangelical churches in recent years has been the use of "
Hell houses", themed pamphlets, or comic-style
tracts such as those created by
Jack T. Chick in order to make use of Halloween's popularity as an opportunity for evangelism.
[51] Some consider Halloween to be completely incompatible with the Christian faith
[55] believing it to have originated as a pagan "
Festival of the Dead".
Paganism
Celtic NeoPagans consider the season a holy time of year.
[56] Celtic Reconstructionists, and others who maintain ancestral customs, make offerings to the gods and the ancestors.
[56]See also
Holidays portalCalan GaeafDay of the DeadDevil's NightGhost FestivalList of fiction works about HalloweenList of films set around HalloweenList of Halloween television specialsMartinisingenMischief nightReferences
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Further reading
Diane C. Arkins, Halloween: Romantic Art and Customs of Yesteryear,
Pelican Publishing Company (2000). 96 pages.
ISBN 1-56554-712-8Diane C. Arkins, Halloween Merrymaking: An Illustrated Celebration Of Fun, Food, And Frolics From Halloweens Past, Pelican Publishing Company (2004). 112 pages.
ISBN 1-58980-113-XLesley Bannatyne, Halloween: An American Holiday, An American History, Facts on File (1990, Pelican Publishing Company, 1998). 180 pages.
ISBN 1-56554-346-7Lesley Bannatyne, A Halloween Reader. Stories, Poems and Plays from Halloweens Past, Pelican Publishing Company (2004). 272 pages.
ISBN 1-58980-176-8Phyllis Galembo, Dressed for Thrills: 100 Years of Halloween Costumes and Masquerade,
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (2002). 128 pages.
ISBN 0-81093-291-1Editha Hörandner (ed.), Halloween in der Steiermark und anderswo,Volkskunde (Münster in Westfalen), LIT Verlag Münster (2005). 308 pages.
ISBN 3-8258-8889-4Lisa Morton, The Halloween Encyclopedia,
McFarland & Company(2003). 240 pages.
ISBN 0-78641-524-XNicholas Rogers, Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night,
Oxford University Press, USA (2002).
ISBN 0-19514-691-3Jack Santino (ed.), Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life,
University of Tennessee Press (1994). 280 pages.
ISBN 0-87049-813-4
