Origins of Halloween

Hi!!

Tomorrow is Halloween. 

In recent years, it has been celebrated vigorously in Japan, and the decoration of Halloween has been done in various places.

By the way, do you know the origin of it? Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. 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. 

Don't you think that it resembles Japanese Obon festival? In Japan,we celebrate a variety of overseas events besides Japanese traditional annual events. But do you really know the meaning of the celebrations?  I think that it would be even more fun knowing the backgrounds.