Halloween - eve of Day of all sacred

The holiday is marked by processions on city in carnival suits.
Millions people in different parts of the world annually celebrate a Halloween - “ eve of Day of all sacred ”.
Children dress up in extraordinary terrible suits and put on ugly masks. With bags in hands they go from the house to the house, frightening of the kind and children, and adults. On custom, they should be given gifts, differently they can harm the house or the owner. Small children usually do not execute the threats, and having received a gift, leave.
According to some information, druids trusted, that this evening the god dead convoked malicious spirits which within the last year lived in bodies of animals. Other pagan people trusted, that this evening all spirits died for last year visiting the houses and consequently for them tables were covered and doors from fear, that if spirits will not find food and habitation were left opened, they will severely revenge living for this inattention to them. Bringing of every possible victims was too the usual phenomenon this evening.

At northern people the holiday began on the eve of November, 1st. Was considered, that souls of kind people after death are carried away by kind spirits in paradise, and souls of malicious people remain to wander in skies, disturbing alive and consequently require in cajole even once a year.

The winter begun with Helloween (on November, 1st), opened year.

This time of mercy, disinterested aid to the family, old, sick and dying, people start to appreciate experience even in the culture esteeming a youth, to keep ancient relics and a cultural heritage of the world, including wisdom of natives. This day abilities to clairvoyant can wake up.

Colors of this day - fiery-red, brown, black - colors of fire, color of torches. In night Helloween fire on an altar - not simply tribute of respect to gods -he protects your center, protects his clear equal light. Let candles will be much. It is possible to make traditional fixtures of pumpkins and to place in them candles, light from an altar. It is possible to create additional fixtures from vessels of orange glass and to place inside heating candles. Such fixtures are put on window sills and behind a threshold. They drive away not only unbidden visitors from the World of Spirits, but also protect your house from plans of your enemies, with envy and rage which can be directed on you.


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Lanterns from pumpkins

Useful councils

To put a pumpkin on some sheets of a paper, not so to litter. To cut off a cover of a pumpkin there where there is a fruit stem. Use a sharp long knife.



cut "covers" under a corner will not allow her to fail then in the cut out pumpkin.



Be convinced, that a hole which you cut out, enough big that it was possible to push a hand, and clear a pumpkin of seeds and fibres.



Survey the pumpkin to find where better to cut out the face. Draw a desirable pattern (even not necessarily features) on a white paper and attach its adhesive tape on a pumpkin where you will cut out a pattern. Take the big nail and pierce a paper and a peel of a pumpkin on a contour.



Sharp knife cut out the pattern on apertures. Squeeze out pieces.


The finished lantern. Now inside it is possible to put a candle.

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Halloween - night of all sacred

The holiday-horror film, actually completely not terrible, and more likely, cheerful and amusing, is the old tradition for some time almost forgotten, and then revived in XIX-th century in the USA.

Historians see roots today's Halloween in ancient celtic celebrating. According to national folklore, this day it is necessary to bridle malicious fairies and to forecast the future for what celtic people used improvised means - nuts and apples. Some Christian researchers attribute to a holiday "devilish" features. However documentary confirmations to that celtic people were engaged in sacrifices, no.

Most likely, far descendants celtic peoples - Irish which mass emigration in the USA happened in XIX-th century, have brought with themselves this tradition on the new native land. In the USA have thought up produce small lamps from pumpkins in the form of a human head - on historical data, these vegetables in the Europe in an antiquity did not grow up. But there were others which peel, for the lack of other material, people used for the device of fixtures.

Halloween has quickly collected popularity, already in beginning XX of a century Europeans with cheerful pleasure began to dress up in all red and black on the eve of Day of All Sacred to amuse each other and at the same time, probably, to get rid, "be cleared" of last year's fears - similarly to ancient celtic people which year began just on November, 1st.


From all modern holidays and significant dates Halloween, perhaps, the most eclectic. It is a unimaginable mosaic of superstitions, folklore, cultural traditions of the different countries. In its carrying out there are no rigid rules, let alone any canon or ritual.

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