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Halloween is a celebration fun, mischief, disguises and excitement. It is observed on 31st October. The most notable feature of this festival is the people, especially children, dressed in spectacular costumes and going from door-to-door to collect candies or other delectable treats. The modern-day holiday of fun and a bit mischief, Halloween that's
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marked by costuming, bobbing for apples, Halloween decorations with carved pumpkins, the night of "trick-or-treating" and Halloween parties, originated from Celtic holiday of harvest, Samhain (November 1st). Since 31st October marked the last day of the summer season, so Samhain meant the beginning of harsh winters, which the Celts related with human death. In Ireland and Scotland, it was also called the festival of dead.
The tradition of masking or costuming on this day goes back to the Middle Ages, when wearing scary masks was thought to keep away evil spirits on the eve of All Saint's Day, All Hallows Eve, hence the term Halloween. So as European immigrants came to the land of America, they brought Halloween customs along and popularized the celebrations nationally. So Americans started wearing costumes and wandering house-to-house for treats or money. So when this practice became popular as "trick-or-treating" throughout U.S., mass-produced costumes for Halloween came to the stores in the 1950's for the first time.
What is exciting and special about Halloween costumes from other occasions is that they are themed on supernatural and spooky, scary beings. The most common Halloween costumes are the traditional monsters like ghosts, vampires, witches, demons and evil spirits. In much recent times, costumes can range from characters from pop culture like TV shows, famous movies like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Spider Man, Batman Man, Lord Of The Rings, Matrix, Jason, etc. to famous personalities like George Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Michael Jackson etc. or fictional characters from books like Dracula, Frankenstein etc. so Halloween costuming gives people an opportunity to fancy like a superhero, movie star, alien or a princess with a dazzling wand. Giving a change to explore one's creativity and imagination, Halloween is a fun filled festival. Halloween costumes are available in stores and online in an endless collection, ranging from horridly frightening to amusingly fanciful. Modern day Halloween in America is more a festival of community gathering and neighborly get-togethers. So Halloween parties have become most common way of celebrating this festival which means indulging in bobbing for apples, telling ghost stories or watching scary movies and a lot of delectable food and candies.
Halloween costuming tradition means one day of glamour, disguising, mischief, playing pranks and pretending to be what one is not. So theydeservit.com has a lot to offer you as far as Halloween concerned. Loaded with ideas about Halloween costumes, this section is sure to be interesting. So go on and explore what's in store for you!
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