Happy Halloween!

Tomorrow's Halloween, or Dia de Los Muertos, but since it's on a Sunday this year, I like to think it's Halloween weekend - Friday through Sunday :)

Have fun whether you're partying, trick-or-treating, making fun cookies, or passing out candy!

Don't forget to dress up.

I went as Joan Jett last night and tonight I'm dressing as Rufio from Hook. I haven't figured out Sunday yet. What are your costumes?
Is Halloween anyone's favorite holiday?
Who doesn't celebrate it?

Well I celebrated halloween by watching the 'Restore Sanity and/or Fear' Rally- answering the door while the trick or treat children came to my door. I went to sonic earlier and a young lady asked me if I liked her constume. I was knocked on my door ,but with a short trip to the store I was back in bussiness The tricksters did not seem to be scared of my unmasked face lol

I went to a science party last night, dressed as a rat.

To old, no kids to enjoy it. lol That aside, Happy Halloween to all who celebrate it!!!

Like so many American festivities, Halloween is now a Dutch event as well, we have children who go door to door to "trick or treat" and pumpkins on the window sill, and parties, lol. I like all those new things that are shared due to globalization:)

Happy Halloween all!!!

Happy Halloween JANE XD and Happy Halloween for all of you guyz..

As some know, and some don't know :
Origin :
The word Halloween represents a scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Evenings , which is the night before All Hallows Day. Detected in the 16th century.

Halloween is a yearly holiday observed on OCt 31, and Jane I think it's only celebrated around the United States, UK, Canada, and Ireland..and I am not sure about Aust. Despite the relation with the christian Holiday ( All saints Day)

HERE I was not a fan of the new costumes, and I couldn't help laughing at the staffs of some shops and restaurants around my hood. And I can't say I did anything , because my family is out of the city and I did not join my friends. PS had better things going ;) :P LOL.

HISTORY ( do not read if you already know, or not interested :P )

Source : WIKI ( so am not sure how much credible lala)

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)".[1] The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end".[1] A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf .

The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year".

The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home while harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened faces. Samhain was also a time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. All other fires were doused and each home lit their hearth from the bonfire. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames. Sometimes two bonfires would be built side-by-side, and people and their livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual.

Another common practice was divination, which often involved the use of food and drink.

The name 'Halloween' and many of its present-day traditions derive from the Old English era.

I went as a creepy uncle, and my girlfriend went as Lolita.

It was fun, especially when we got accosted by a Christian who tried to rant at us about how much he hated Halloween and we just started making out to ignore him.

Haha! Oh Kevin, I'd have loved to see that. People just need to learn to have some fun.

Saturday I went out to my favorite bar and had a pitcher of beer and a delicious burger. Then I dressed up as Zorro and went bowling along with such characters as Huckleberry Finn, Sponge Bob and Patrick, and old woman named Irma, Abraham Lincoln, and John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth won the game. Lincoln was a little humiliated.

Then I went home and watched shows about the paranormal. I love Halloween telly.