Interesting Facts about Halloween 11 Fun Facts About Halloween 31 October we celebrate as Halloween every year. This is the most popular festival in Britain among the kids and 31 October we celebrate as Halloween teenagers. A festival of pumpkin lanterns every year. This isdress the most popular festival fancy costumes, parties andina Britain lot of among the kids and teenagers. A festival of pumpkin lanterns fun. fancy dress costumes, parties and a lot of fun.
some facts you probably don’t know about Halloween and love to know about it.. 1. Some other name of Halloween •All Hallows Eve •Samhain •All Hallow tide •The Feast of the Dead •The Day of the Dead
2. Halloween is correctly spelt as Hallowe’en
3. Halloween is one of the oldest celebrations in the world, dating back over 2000 years to the time of the Celts who lived in Britain.
4. The colors orange and black are traditionally associated with Halloween these colours represent the connections to harvest (orange) and death (black) .
5. The tradition of dressing up originates from the belief that the spirits would roam on the night of Halloween, people were fearful that they would be recognised as non-sprits so dressed as the dead so they would remain safe.
6. Apple bobbing may be related to the ancient Roman festival of remembering the dead, which was also in October. The Romans remembered the goddess of trees and fruit, called Pomona. When they came to the UK, about 2,000 years ago, they continued with this tradition.
7. Jack-o'-lanterns originated in Pagan times. Children originally carved potatoes and turnips lanterns which would be used to scare off evil spirits. Today we traditionally carve pumpkins.
8. About 99% of pumpkins sold are used as Jack O' Lanterns at Halloween.
9.Black cats were originally believed to protect witches' powers from negative forces.
10. If you see a spider on this night, it could be the spirit of a dead loved one who is watching you.
11. Halloween is the 2nd most commercially successful holiday. Christmas is the no. 1 .
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