History of Halloween. Knowing is half the battle. You've dressed up every year since you were a kid, you've eaten pounds of candy and you're always in the mood to carve some pumpkins. So don't you think it's about time you learned where Halloween came from in the first place? For the ancient Celts, a group of people who lived in ancient England and Ireland around 2,000 years ago, Halloween was a night of great significance. It occurred at the end of the harvest season, when the days were getting shorter and the nights were getting colder. So as this new season approached, the Celts believed the barrier separating the living and the dead grew thin. They believed this border was at its most transparent during the festival of Samhain, a night when the dead were thought to return and haunt the living. Returned spirits could be good or bad, so crop and ... Read more: http://tinyurl.com/y9xqqdp
