Get your pumpkins ready! (UPDATE: a Celtic festival)

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Halloween has become a typical North-American phenomenon. Only during the past few years the celebration has been catching on in Europe as well. Pubs organise Halloween parties, children go door-to-door playing Trick-or-Treat and many TV-networks feature a horror movie. If you still don’t know what to do tonight we suggest you decorate your car with pumpkins (click!) or sing some songs (click!).

Happy Halloween!...(card -click image!- collection Hans Horwitz) (RB)

Update by Andy Watt :"Love the halloween picture but the Americans can't claim this 'festival' as their own. Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter." (more info at History.com )

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