It is thought that Halloween initiate from a Celtic holiday known as Samhain that was famous in Ireland and Scotland at crop yielding time for well over a thousand years. Samhain was the time of year (October 31st) when harvesting was over and animals were brought from summer pastures to protection for the winter months. At Samhain a big festival was celebrated, and fruits, vegetables, grain, and animals, was blaze as gifts to the gods in huge bonfires in expect of a victorious new year. It was hypothetical that during the night of Samhain, that the dead could walk among the living, and that the living could ask the dead question about the future year. As they believed some of these spirits were evil, they wore costume with animal heads to fright the spirits and protect themselves.
Christianity stretched to the Celtic lands, and in the 7th century, Pope Boniface IV affirmed November 1st to be All Saints Day, otherwise known as "All Hallow’s Day," hallow referring to sainted ones. All Saint’s Day was to celebrate the holy saints and martyrs of Christianity. It is usually believed that these was an attempt to Christianize the popular Celtic holiday and reduced the significance of the Celtic ritual and the influence of their spiritual leaders, the druids. This is also how the day become known as All Hallow’s Eve, or Halloween. All Soul’s Day was similarly added in Christianity a couple hundred years later to celebrate the dead.
Carving out turnips and illumination them goes back hundreds of years with the holiday. An Irish legend tells of a man named Jack who performance the devil to turn into a coin and keeps him from altering back by placing the coin next to a cross. A year later, Jack dies, but is either allowable into heaven, or hell, so he must roam the earth. The 1800\'s brought Halloween to the United States (US) with the Irish immigrant. Pumpkins were carved quite than turnips as they were large and additional abundant.
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