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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