How to celebrate Halloween

Halloween means "All hallow's eve", a word that comes from Old English, and that means "eve of all the saints", since it refers to the night of October 31, the eve of the Feast of All Saints. Halloween was a religious festival that thanks to Anglo-Saxon Protestant sieve has become a pagan festival. In recent years, Hispanic countries are increasingly celebrating more and better Halloween, incorporating it into their traditions. Here we explain the most basic things to celebrate a good Halloween.

You will need to:
  • Delusion
  • You want to have fun
Steps to follow:

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Dress up as something spooky to celebrate Halloween, without doubt one of the funniest things in the Halloween party are the costumes for one night you can represent some of the darkest celebrities: Annibal Lecter, Jason, Freddie Krueger, Zoombies, Undead, Dracula, Frankenstein, Michael Meyers, Leatherface, Damian the son of the devil, Ghostface, Regan the exorcist girl or Jack Skellington are some of the most popular in the USA. Here costumes such as the mummy, the vampire, the devil and Harry Potter are also very popular to celebrate Halloween.

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Decorate the Halloween house, the pumpkin, balloons with faces of dead, candles that give a lugubrious atmosphere to your home are just some of the many decorations you can make to celebrate a fun Halloween. In addition to decorating you can put music set on Halloween and / or watch some Halloween movies with all your friends.

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Playing the trick or treatment, originally the trick or treatment was a popular legend according to which not only the spirits of the deceased were free to roam the Earth on Halloween night, but all kinds of entities from all the spiritual realms. Among them was a terribly malevolent one who wandered through towns and villages, going from house to house asking for precisely "trick or treat". Currently, children in disguise go around the houses saying trick or treat in order to get sweets and gifts.

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The illuminated pumpkin, an ancient Irish legend tells that the illuminated pumpkin would be the face of a certain Jack O'Lantern who, on the night of All Saints, invited the devil to drink at home, pretending to be a good Christian, but as not it was ended up in hell. The illuminated pumpkin is a family act where adults and children help to empty and decorate the pumpkin to celebrate Halloween.

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It is said that the body of the black cat is not more than the disguise that the same witches use to walk calmly through the city, to go unnoticed. That is why one of the traditions of Halloween warns that if a black cat crosses in front of you on this night, bad luck will inevitably fall on your head. But calm there is an antidote: when it happens to you, it immediately takes seven steps back and curse conjured!

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For many, it is the night when the satanic and witchcraft powers are at their highest level of development. It is logical that their rituals have been mixed with the current celebration of Halloween, to the point that Halloween is also called "The Night of the Witches".

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Make special food for Halloween, a few fingers of appetizer, some stuffed eggs in the form of spider first and open second brains are just some dishes you can do to celebrate a great Halloween.

Tips
  • Remember that in Spain we also celebrate carnival, so many of the things you prepare for Halloween can be used for carnival.