Hi! Today I’m going to talk about “Halloween” in our days and the role that accomplished this celebration in the creation of the “Feast of all Saints” (November 1st ) and the “All Souls” day (November 2nd ), so this post is considered as the second part of this topic and it starts like this…
At the last post, it was mentioned that the Christian Church wanted to substitute the Samhain with another holiday so that’s why they decided to create the “Feast of all Saints” or “All Hallows Day”, assigned to November 1st. This holiday was formed to celebrate and honor all Christian saints but especially for all that saints that don’t have a special day to be celebrated; however, finally, this holiday didn’t achieved to replaced Samhain but something started to happen: the Celts deities started to be substituted for fairies and leprechauns. Later, the church tried again to suppress the Samhain by creating a new holiday that is the “All Souls Day”, assigned to November 2nd. This holiday was meant to pray for the souls of all those people who have already died, however this didn’t worked again.
Time passed by and the “All Saints Day” became the “All Hallows Eve Day” but with ancient Celtic traditions. People continued to celebrate this day but as a time for wandering dead and evil supernatural beings. Later, it began to be celebrated the “All Hallows Evening Day” which is considered as the “Halloween” that we already know today. This day started to be used to transmit the message that death is part of life, it started to be said that the souls and fantastic creatures such as fairies, witches, and demons were roaming that day and that’s why it began the use of costumes in order to ask for treats.
Well, that’s all for today! I hope you enjoyed this post and I wish you to return next week!
At the last post, it was mentioned that the Christian Church wanted to substitute the Samhain with another holiday so that’s why they decided to create the “Feast of all Saints” or “All Hallows Day”, assigned to November 1st. This holiday was formed to celebrate and honor all Christian saints but especially for all that saints that don’t have a special day to be celebrated; however, finally, this holiday didn’t achieved to replaced Samhain but something started to happen: the Celts deities started to be substituted for fairies and leprechauns. Later, the church tried again to suppress the Samhain by creating a new holiday that is the “All Souls Day”, assigned to November 2nd. This holiday was meant to pray for the souls of all those people who have already died, however this didn’t worked again.
Time passed by and the “All Saints Day” became the “All Hallows Eve Day” but with ancient Celtic traditions. People continued to celebrate this day but as a time for wandering dead and evil supernatural beings. Later, it began to be celebrated the “All Hallows Evening Day” which is considered as the “Halloween” that we already know today. This day started to be used to transmit the message that death is part of life, it started to be said that the souls and fantastic creatures such as fairies, witches, and demons were roaming that day and that’s why it began the use of costumes in order to ask for treats.
Well, that’s all for today! I hope you enjoyed this post and I wish you to return next week!
Note: All the information shown above was taken from the work that is at the bibliography....
Works Cited
Santino, Jack. Halloween: The Fantasy and Folklore of All
Hallows. September 1982. 22 September 2011
<http://www.loc.gov/folklife/halloween.html>.
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