Halloween !

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the last day of October. This day holds its origin 2000 years back to Celtic civilisation. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints’ Day. Halloween marked the end of the winter solistice and the end of the harvest festival.
About 2000 years back the Celts celebrated a holiday on the name of the God of death and called the day Samhain. They believed on the last day of the autumn harvest festival the God of death released all the death spirits to visit the homes they once lived. That used to be a scary night for the Celts. On that night they would leave their homes and gather together in a field. Once at the field they would build a huge bonfire, this fire was as big as a torcher tool shed, to scare away all the evil spirits and any ghost, goblins, or any other demons that may be roaming around in the night. The main reason for the Celts to built the bonfires was their fear  for the spirits of the death. They feared that the spirits became powerful and caused harm to the living beings like sickness and damaged the crops. Costumes or masks were also being worn by the Celts in an attempt to copy the spirits and placate them. The ceremony of Samhain was followed by All Hallows Eve, celebrated on November first. The souls would once again be banished and no longer free to roam the earth. Eventually the Celt religion was replaced by Christianity. Somewhere around 800 A.D. the Christian church declared November 1st as All Saints' Day to honour all the Saints who did not have a special day of their own. On this occasion people made their old customs from Samhian and the Roman festivals part of the All Saints' Day rituals. The Catholic church also made November 2nd All Souls' Day to honour the dead.
Halloween costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devils. Costumes are also based on themes other than traditional horror, such as those of characters from television shows, movies, and other pop culture icons. Many other symbols that are used today, such as the jack-o-lantern, originated from this ceremony.
There are several games traditionally associated with Halloween parties. One common game is dunking or apple bobbing, in which apples float in a tub or a large basin of water the participants must use their teeth to remove an apple from the basin,to make things even more challenging, try removing the stems from the apples.
Some games traditionally played at Halloween are forms of divination.
During the late 19th and 20th centuries a common culture was wide spread,which was something like if an unmarried girl sat in a room alone on this day looking at the mirror the face of her future husband appered on the mirrior and if she was to die before marriage a skeleton appeared on the mirror.
Haunted houses are the main attractions of this day. It is a very common tradition to pay a visit to the haunted and spooky places in the country.
As the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples,also known as toffee, caramel or taffy apples, are a common Halloween treat made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.