Hi everybody!
I saw that Sarah put us within the groups that are against Halloween, and really I’m against it.
I saw that Sarah put us within the groups that are against Halloween, and really I’m against it.
I think that it shouldn’t be celebrated in Italy, because it that doesn’t belong to our culture.
I read on Wikipedia that it’s a pre-christian celebration, now typically American and Canadian. Celts gave currency to Halloween in Europe, because at the end of summer they celebrated the new year. In this day, dead people could return to Earth: Celts didn’t fear them and they left food for those who visited living people. Celts did not fear demons but fairies and elves, that joked humans: from here we have the tradition of Treat or Trick. Then the ancient Romans and Christianity tried to absorb this pagan recurrence. At the beginning, All Saints was celebrated on 13th May, but then (in the year 1048) the date was changed by the Pope on 31st October. For this reason in Anglo-Saxon countries this festivity was called Hallowmas, and the eve All Hallows Eve, that changed in the modern name of Halloween. It is generally said that Irish people invented Halloween celebration in the United States, even if this recurrence is linked with the tradition of Anglo-Saxon countries.
So, it’s clear that Halloween doesn’t belong to Italian culture and, apart from that, I think it’s only a commercial business. Children go in every house, tempted by candies and sweets, disguised as witches, zombies, vampires, demons… I think that Halloween pretends to be a Carnival, but more frightful and macabre, and it’s only an occasion to spend an evening different from the usual.
And you, girls, what do you think?
Bye,
Vale
I read on Wikipedia that it’s a pre-christian celebration, now typically American and Canadian. Celts gave currency to Halloween in Europe, because at the end of summer they celebrated the new year. In this day, dead people could return to Earth: Celts didn’t fear them and they left food for those who visited living people. Celts did not fear demons but fairies and elves, that joked humans: from here we have the tradition of Treat or Trick. Then the ancient Romans and Christianity tried to absorb this pagan recurrence. At the beginning, All Saints was celebrated on 13th May, but then (in the year 1048) the date was changed by the Pope on 31st October. For this reason in Anglo-Saxon countries this festivity was called Hallowmas, and the eve All Hallows Eve, that changed in the modern name of Halloween. It is generally said that Irish people invented Halloween celebration in the United States, even if this recurrence is linked with the tradition of Anglo-Saxon countries.
So, it’s clear that Halloween doesn’t belong to Italian culture and, apart from that, I think it’s only a commercial business. Children go in every house, tempted by candies and sweets, disguised as witches, zombies, vampires, demons… I think that Halloween pretends to be a Carnival, but more frightful and macabre, and it’s only an occasion to spend an evening different from the usual.
And you, girls, what do you think?
Bye,
Vale
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