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Celebrating Halloween

Halloween is one of the most widely celebrated festivals in the world. Whilst some feel it should not be celebrated as it glorifies evil, in our increasingly secular society it is mostly seen as a harmless bit of fun for the kids.

Halloween began as a pagan Celtic festival celebrating New Year’s Eve, the Celtic New Year beginning on 1 st November. On that night witches and ghosts were said to be abroad, so people dressed up in ghoulish costumes to frighten the spirits away. They also carved turnips into lanterns and placed them in their windows to ward off evil spirits.

In the UK, the traditional celebrations are big on apples; apple bobbing, which involvs floating a number of apples in a bowl of water and trying to remove one by biting it, or by hanging apples on strings and eating the apple with no hands. For the less health conscious toffee apples are a traditional treat!

Jack-o-lantern’s are a very old tradition, based on carving turnips or mangle-wurzels, a member of the beet family. Pumpkin carving is an American invention, the pumpkin being softer and much easier to cut than our native turnip.

‘Trick or treating’ has become popular in the UK in the last 20 or so years having been imported from the US. The ‘treat’ was based on an UK tradition called ‘souling’, where the poor would beg for food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day, November 2nd. The ‘trick’ was originally something the child would do to earn their treat, maybe by singing a song, rather like carol singers.

If you want to celebrate Halloween with your children there are a few things to bear in mind: If your child wants to go trick or treating, they should be accompanied. You will probably want to check that any items they are given are appropriate, particularly if your child suffers from any allergies. If you hold a party ensure that the decorations, activities and costumes are age appropriate. If there is a wide range of ages, remember younger ones may be frightened by costumes that older children and adults regard as tame.

For loads more information and some lively discussion of Halloween visit Wikipedia's entry for Halloween. Find some great Halloween recipes and makes at Fabulous Foods. Visit Halloween Online for links to a whole network on Halloween related sites with ideas, recipes and costume ideas. Halloween Magazine has lots of links and articles on safety, poems and scary stories.

Halloween Costumes, Party Gear & Gifts
Quick And Easy Halloween Decorations
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