Halloween: The Origin and Its Cultural Assimilation
Its Cultural Assimilation
Halloween or Halloweíen is a tradition of evening celebrations on October 31 and is mainly celebrated in the United States. This tradition originated in Ireland and was carried by Irish people who emigrated to North America.
Halloween is celebrated by children wearing spooky costumes, and going around from door to door of neighboring houses asking for sweets or chocolate while saying "Trick or treat!" The speech is a kind of "threat" which means "Give us (candy) or we'll make a mess".
Today, children usually no longer bully the homes of people who give nothing. Even though there are some children who still bully homes, people are stingy by decorating trees in front of their homes with toilet paper or writing windows with soap.
Halloween is synonymous with demons, magicians, ghosts of goblins and creepy creatures of Western culture. Halloween is welcomed by decorating homes and shopping centers with Halloween symbols.
Halloween The Origin
Historically, Halloween originated from the Samhain festival (from the Ancient Irish language) which was celebrated by ancient Kelts. The Samhain Festival is the final celebration of the harvest season in Gaelic culture and is sometimes called the 'Keltî New Year.
The Kelt people who embraced Paganism from generation to generation used the opportunity for festivals to slaughter livestock and stockpile food for winter preparation.
The ancient Gael believed that October 31, the boundary of the world of the dead and the world of the living became open. Dead people endanger living people by carrying diseases and damaging crops.
While celebrating the festival, the Gael lit a bonfire to burn the bones of the animals they slaughtered. Gael people wear costumes and masks to pretend to be evil spirits or try to make peace with them.
The origin of the term Halloween is short for the All Hallowsí Event (eve and event together mean evening/night) which means the night before the All Hallow feast which is now called All Saints Holy Day. The letter ìnî at the end of the word Halloween comes from the word event.
In ancient times, November 1 was used as a religious festival day in various European pagan traditions until Pope Gregory III and Pope Gregory IV moved the celebration of All Saints Day according to the saint calendar from May 13 to November 1. May 13 was celebrated as a Paganism holiday for the festival of Lemuria.
The All Saints' feast was determined by Christian missionaries to coincide with pagan holidays on the grounds that they wanted pagans to believe in Christianity. Day of the Dead that celebrates the arrival of the spirits of relatives and relatives back to earth is still commemorated in several countries such as Brazil, Mexico, China, and the Philippines.
The Symbol: Jack-o'-lantern
Halloween which is universally understood is symbolized by a pumpkin carved to form a face to "hum" that is called the Jack-o'-lantern. Inside the Jack-o'-lantern, candles are usually placed or lights to look more sinister in dark places.
In the United States, Jack-o'-lantern lanterns are often placed in front of the house entrance after dark. The tradition of carving a Jack-o'-lantern originating from North America produces a lot of large pumpkins.
The symbols of Halloween celebrates the natural state of autumn, including harvested pumpkins and scarecrows as guardians of crops. In addition, the symbols of Halloween are also close to death, miracles, monsters, and the creepy characters that are made by American filmmakers and graphic designers.
Halloween Adjustments Along The Age
The characters often associated with Halloween are demons and demons from Western culture, pumpkin humans, extraterrestrials, witches, bats, owls, crows, vultures, ghost houses, black cats, spiders, goblins, zombies, mummies, skulls, and werewolves.
Classic horror movie characters like Dracula or Frankenstein monsters are also used for Halloween celebrations. As for the more modern character, we can't leave the infamous Mike Myers out from this list.
Black and orange are considered traditional Halloween colors, although many Halloween items are now purple, green and red.
In the cool hemisphere, the Halloween celebration takes place in the apple season. One Halloween food is caramel apples (apples dipped in sugar liquid). Other dishes that are closely associated with the Halloween tradition are pumpkin pie, apple juice (cider drinks), candy corn, bonfire toffee, candy apple, and candy wrapped in Halloween colors (orange, brown or black).
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