Traditions On Halloween Or Halloween
Story / / July 04, 2021
The most common Halloween or Halloween traditions are:
Halloween costumes
Hoping to scare away all spirits, people littered their own homes to make them look like dark houses. Skulls, bones of all kinds and other unpleasant utensils hung on them, so that the supposed dead would continue to be frightened. That is why the tradition arises of decorating homes with both horror motifs. The Celts to repel spirits disguised themselves with the skins of wild animals. Masks were also widely used to ward off spirits associated with disasters and extensive droughts.
The black cat and Halloween
The black cat or black cat is considered as a symbol of divinity among the Celts and also the Egyptians, but contrary to that a very particular fear of this domestic animal developed. They assumed that black cats were the kind of feline that demons had turned people into, meaning that cats were cursed human beings.
Pumpkins on Halloween
Celtic populations of origin used to hollow turnips and light coals inside it to illuminate the routes back to the world of living beings to their dearest deceased. When the Irish arrived on the American continent, they met the pumpkins and discovered that they were much larger and larger than turnips. From there, the lighted pumpkin has become a classic at the Halloween party.