Why We Celebrate Halloween (and an Easy Way to Make It Taste Better)
Halloween is one of those holidays everyone joins in on without really asking why. People wear costumes, carve pumpkins, and kids walk around the neighborhood collecting candy. But the night has a long history, and it looks quite different from the version most of us know today. Where Halloween Comes From The holiday is usually traced back to Samhain, an old Celtic festival held around October 31 and November 1. It marked the end of the harvest and the start of the darker half of the year. People believed the boundary between the living and the dead was thin at that time, so they lit bonfires and sometimes wore disguises. Later, the Christian calendar placed All Saints' Day, also called All Hallows, on November 1. The night before became All Hallows' Eve, which over time was shortened to Halloween. Historians do not fully agree on how direct the link to Samhain is, so it is more accurate to say Halloween has roots in these traditions than to say it is a straight continuatio...
