Tonight a lot of people on our planet will celebrate the mystical and cheerful holiday - Halloween.
Did you know that bears the unfamiliar sound to Russian ears, a holiday?Pagan rituals whether or harmless jokes of children and adults who are ready on the night of November 1, have fun till you drop, dressing up in funny costumes and scaring each other?
Meanwhile Halloween story is interesting, and know it to be, even if you believe that such celebration only a tribute to a passing fashion.
this strange holiday roots take us back centuries in the Christian era, when the land of Ireland, Northern France and England was inhabited by Celtic tribes.Their year consisted of two parts - the summer and winter.And the transition from one season to the other commemorates the end of the harvest, celebrated on 31 October and symbolized the beginning of a new year.In its rules come winter.
night of November 1, when the legend to open the border between the worlds of the living and the dead was called Samhain or Samhain was considered the main holiday of the ancient peoples.Pagans Celts gave him great importance and in order not to fall prey to the shadows of the dead dressed up in animal heads and skins, quenched with lesions in their homes and all their awesome views deterred ghosts.
Treats spirits exhibited in the street, and the people themselves were going to the fires, which bred the Celtic priests druids.
That night sacrificed animals to make predictions and lighted winter hearth, making the house the sacred flame tongues.The tradition of celebrating handed down from age to age, as long as I in.BC the Romans conquered Celtic territory.
Converts to the Christian faith, the inhabitants of the islands of Ireland and Britain were forced to give up many pagan customs.However, memories of Samhain continued to live and be transmitted from generation to generation.
When in the IX century, Pope Gregory III moved from May 13 to November 1, All Saints Day celebration, Samhain began to celebrate again.Previous holiday night in the medieval English was called All Hallows Even (All Saints Evening), the reduction - Hallowe'en, and very briefly Halloween.
Sought whether the Christian Church to revive the celebration of the Gentiles?Most likely, the aim was to eradicate the Celtic tradition, however, the coincidence of dates has led to the opposite effect.Holiday not only survived, but rallied firmly in people's minds with the church celebration of All Saints' Day.
Since Halloween was celebrated everywhere in the best traditions of Samhain, and the very night of the celebration was chosen by witches held their sabbaths and frightening civilians.
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