Halloween traditions such as costumes, candy, and jack-o'-lanterns originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals and Christian All Saints' Day. Celts believed spirits roamed on Samhain and wore scary costumes to trick the spirits. People later carried lanterns made from hollowed-out turnips or pumpkins as they went door-to-door asking for food in return for praying for the dead.
Halloween traditions such as costumes, candy, and jack-o'-lanterns originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals and Christian All Saints' Day. Celts believed spirits roamed on Samhain and wore scary costumes to trick the spirits. People later carried lanterns made from hollowed-out turnips or pumpkins as they went door-to-door asking for food in return for praying for the dead.
Halloween traditions such as costumes, candy, and jack-o'-lanterns originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals and Christian All Saints' Day. Celts believed spirits roamed on Samhain and wore scary costumes to trick the spirits. People later carried lanterns made from hollowed-out turnips or pumpkins as they went door-to-door asking for food in return for praying for the dead.
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their own and leave them alone. Halloween pumpkins, or jack-o- OWEE lanterns: In medieval Britain, supplicants moved from door to door N asking for food in return for a prayer for the dead, and they would carry hollowed-out turnip lanterns, whose candle connoted a soul trapped in purgatory.