When is Halloween? Halloween Ideas, Decorations & Recipes

[angelinacheel]

Halloween falls every year on October 31, which this year is a Thursday. It is also the day that the UK was supposed to officially leave the EU. The activities typically involve trick or treating, dressing up in fancy dress and carving pumpkins.

The word Halloween comes from Hallowe’en, meaning “hallowed evening” or holy evening. The word itself is a Scottish term for All Hallows Eve - the evening before All Saints' Day.

Weather charts show the risk of a flurry in Scotland on the spookiest night of the year although it will be confined to high ground. Britain’s weather will make a dramatic u-turn over the next 24 hours with bitter northerly winds bringing the first taste of winter.

50 HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS!



Spooky UK Halloween Events

1 Ghosts at Muncaster and Lowther
2 Carlisle by Torchlight
3 Warwick Castle’s Most Haunted
4 Paranormal investigations at Newcastle Castle
5 Tours Under Edinburgh
6 Meet the Ghosts of York
7 Medical Gore in London
8 Ghostly Theatreland
9 Ghost Tours in the Dark in Newcastle
10 Farm scares
11 Zombie Apocalypse
12 Ghostly Galleon
13 Royal Maritime Greenwich Ghost Tour
14 Halloween Mini Cruise
15 Scarefest at Alton Towers
16 Fright Nights at Thorpe Park
17 Vampires at the Beach
18 Witches in the Dungeon
19 Happy Halloween for Tiny People
20 Dreamland becomes Screamland

[Albert Davis]

The History of Halloween


2,000 years ago, the United Kingdom was a very different place, and much of it was inhabited by the nature-worshipping Celts and their mystical druidic traditions. This group of mysterious warriors had once spread across much of northern Europe, but had eventually been pushed back to the UK islands with the spread of the Roman empire. The Celts’ new year began on November 1, so the day before—October 31st—was marked by a very important celebration called Samhain.

[Evanvincent]

Why Halloween is scary?
It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain; that such festivals may have had pagan roots; and that Samhain itself was Christianized as Halloween by the early Church.