Halloween. We all know it and love it. The

one day you can walk arou

nd with a costume on and not be

called a

dork. T

his Halloween, I’ve decided to research how

Halloween started. I’d like to share what I’ve found.

It all started with the Celtic holiday of Samhain (pronounced SAW-WEN

), when people thought that the barrier between the living and the dead world was thinnest. To scare away the demons and the like, they would dress up as ghouls. They also had a festival.

However,

Pope Bonneforth IV thought that th

is seemed a little pagan for his taste, so he established All

Saints Day, which was later moved to November 1st to overshadow

Samhain. This made the day before “All Saints Eve”, or All Hallows Eve, essentially

Halloween. Later, All Souls Day was proclaimed on N

ovember 2nd. One of t

he Irish customs was to carve beets into scary faces.

 When a number of Irish people immigrated to America to escape the potato famine, they brought their traditions with them. They found pumpkins and other gourds to make lanterns out of. Halloween grew in pop

ularity and eventually became a main ho

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liday. 

Have

a Happy

Halloween, Bulldogs!