How did Halloween become so popular?|Halloween Celebration
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Date: 21/10/2021

How did Halloween become so popular?

Halloween is a holiday, celebrated each year on October 31, that has roots in age-old European cultures. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.
Thirty-first of October. This day marked the end of summertime and the harvest and the start of the dark, cold winter. This was a time of the year that was associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.
By the 1920s and 1930s, Halloween had become a secular, but community-centered holiday, with parades and town-wide Halloween parties as to the starred entertainment. Despite the best attempts of many communities, vandalism began to plague some celebrations in many areas during this time.
By the 1950s, leaders of many towns had successfully narrowed vandalism and Halloween evolved into a celebration mainly for the young. Due to the large numbers of young children parties moved from town centers into the classroom or home, as they could be easily accommodated.
It’s a tradition that’s been around for more than a thousand years! It started with rather dark roots but has become a more lighthearted and enjoyable holiday for both children and adults. It is the second-highest sales volume holiday next to Christmas!
Halloween becomes so popular as of its history and the way this festival celebrates the thirty-first of October. This day marked the end of summertime and the harvest and the start of the dark, cold winter. This was the time of the year that was associated with human death. From Irish and English traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go home to home asking for money or food, a practice that finally became today’s “trick-or-treat” tradition.
Also, people nowadays are too excited for this day as they wear different Halloween costumes, Halloween wigs, fairytale costumes, fashion wigs, carnival costumes, to look like them and enjoy the party of ghosts with a signature of a party called "pumpkin". Halloween is a very social holiday. It gives kids of all ages a chance to get together, not only with family and friends but with strangers too, for fun and enjoyment.
Halloween gives kids from 5 to 75 a chance to dress up in a costume and pretend they’re someone - or something - different. We get to act out fantasies and play pretend, and we all love that.
It gives people who are so inclined a chance to trick others, perhaps get redress for real or perceived injuries without accountability.