Journal Entry #15

Halloween

Halloween was come from the ancient Celtic. The Celtics lived 2,000 years ago in Ireland, the United Kingdom. On this day, the Celtics celebrated their new year, as the end of summer, harvest and continuing the dark, cold winter, associated with the death. Celtics believed that on that day the ghosts of the dead returned to earth to cause trouble and damage crops. So that the Celtic priests fired crops and animals as sacrifices on that day to protect them without troubles and damaged crops during the long dark winter. This day was also combined with the traditional Roman festival. The Romans also commemorated to honor saints, goddess of fruits. The symbol of this celebration is pumpkins, apples, bats, many scary thing. Nowadays, people celebrate as a funny festival with the traditional scary costumes, decorate their house with pumpkins with smile face, bats, burred lights.