Origins

The Celts lived 2,000 years

To commemorate the event, Celtic priests built
ago in Ireland, the United
huge sacred bonefires where people gathered to
Kingdom and nothern France.
burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic
In the night of October 31st,
deities. During the celebration, Celts wore customes
they celebrated Samahin,
consisting of animal heads and skins.
when it was believed that
ghosts of the death returned Where does the name
to Earth.
"Halloween" come from?
The Samahin marked the end
of the Summer and the By the 9th century, Christianity had spread into
harvest and the beginning of Celtics land so, the church made November 2nd
the dark and cold winter. All Souls' Day, which was also called All-Hallowmas
(from middle English Alholowmesse).
The night before, the traditional night of Samahin
in the Celtic religion began to be called
All-Hallows Eve , eventually, Halloween.

Source: History. (2019) Halloween 2019. [Online] Retrieved from: https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween. Accessed on Sept 26th, 2019
By Erik Lozano Castro