What's Halloween?

Halloween (All Hallows's contraction ' Eve, ' On Eve of All the Saints '), also known as Night of Bruges or Night of Deceased, is a holiday of Celtic origin that celebrates principally in the United States, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and in not Anglo-Saxon countries as Mexico and Colombia in the night of October 31. It has origin in the Celtic festivity of the Samhain and the festivity christens of the All Saints' Day. Largely, it is a secular celebration though some of them think that it possesses a religious background. The Irish immigrants transmitted versions of the tradition to North America during the Great Irish famine of 1840.1.

The day associates often with the colors orange, black and purple and is strongly tied to symbols as Jack - Or '-lantern. Halloween's typical activities are the famous trick or treatment and the holidays of disguises, besides the bonfires, the visit of delighted houses, the jokes, the reading history of fear and the viewed one of movies of terror.