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Punyasloke Bose

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Punyasloke Bose

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Festival of Halloween

Festival of Halloween

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While staying in Poland this year, I heard about the festival, Halloween. Naturally, I was curious to know about this festival mostly unknown in India.

I enquired from many sources and including the Internet.

Halloween is a celebration observed in many countries on 31st October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.

Halloween is also a holiday that marks the day before the Western Christian feast of All Saints, or All Hallows, and initiates the season of Allhallowtide. 

It is at the beginning of the observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints(hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed. 

In popular culture, the day has become a celebration of horror, being associated with the macabre and supernatural. 

In much of Europe and North America, celebration of Halloween is largely non religi

ous.

The Halloween holiday has it's roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, a pagan religious celebration. 

Popular Halloween activities include trick - or - treating (or the related guising and souling), attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins or turnips into jack - o-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stores, and watching horror or Halloween themed films. 

Some people practice the Christian observances of All Hallows Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead. Some eat vegetarian foods on this vigil day including apples, potato pancakes and soul cakes. 

The three days 'All Hallows Eve', All Hallows Day (All Saints day) on November 1 and All Souls Day on November 2, these three days are collectively called Allhallowtide. 



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