halloween

The celebration of Halloween has been integrated into our culture almost displacing the ancestral rites of the Day of the Dead, yet few know where or when you have this set of activities performed in the macabre night of October 31. Reading a document that the celebrated Dr. Bala gave me a few years ago, I would write some things that seemed interesting for the curious and students of any humanas.Hace customs thousands of years, the Celts were in what is now known as the Britain and France, and celebrated the new year on November 1, so it began with the issue from October 31 at night. But, something incomprehensible, not drunk! as is now usual (what a waste of time ...), but taking it very seriously, and priests dedicated to Samhain night, the death knight. Great bonfires were lit, horses and sometimes even humans were sacrificed to ward off witches and evil spirits, it turns out that in the Celtic custom the dead returned on the night of Samhain, to seek food at the frightened villagers to who cursed and made victims of their spells if they agreed to their requests (or give me or I make a prank, which is the translation of "Trick or Treat").