Halloween 2021: Significance And Origin Behind The Festival Of Spook
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Halloween history: The festival originates from the time of Celts, a collection of tribes with origins in central Europe.
From pumpkins to pranks and communication with the dead, Halloween is a patchwork holiday stitched together with religious and occult traditions that span across centuries.
The history of this festival originates from the time of Celts, a collection of tribes with origins in central Europe. Their culture spread across the continent more than 2000 years ago. They used to celebrate the end of the harvest season with a festival called Soin on October 31.
It also marked the Celtic New Year and was considered a time between years, a magical time when the ghosts of the dead walked the earth.
On Soin the villagers gathered and lit bonfires to drive the dead back to the spirit world and keep them away from the living, however as the Catholics Church''s influence grew in Europe, it frowned on the pagan rituals like Soin. Later in the 7th century, the Vatican began to merge it with a church-sanctioned holiday.
