Halloween Informative Speech

Halloween

As we know Halloween is celebrated on October 31. People know this day as a day to dress up and go around house to house getting candy. If you think about it why does anyone know why we go around getting free candy and dressing up. Halloween was a old European tradition. Started with the ancient Celtic festivals of Samhain. People would have bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. During the eighth century, Pope Gregory the third identified November 1st to honor all saints. Saints Day contain some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was called Hallows Eve then later called Halloween. Over time, halloween turned into a day of activities, some like trick-or-treating and carving pumpkins.

Start of Halloween

Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago. The United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November first. The day marked the end of summer and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of the year that was open to the death of human. The night of October 31 they celebrated their Samhain, when it was believed that the dead humans ghosts came back to earth.In addition to causing trouble and damaging people's crops, Celts thought that the presence of the spirits made it easier for the evil spirits, or Celtic presence to make predictions about the future. People were entirely dependent on the unstable natural world. To respect the event, the Druids built large sacred bonfires. The people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. When they celebrated, the Celts wore costumes, typically including animals heads and skins, and they tried to tell each other's