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Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of Hallows' Even or Hallows' Evening), also referred to as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration noticed in lots of nations on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, the time within the liturgical 12 months dedicated to remembering the useless, together with saints (hallows), martyrs, and all of the devoted departed.

It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated from historical Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain; that such festivals may have had pagan roots; and that Samhain itself was Christianized as Halloween by the early Church. Some believe, however, that Halloween began solely as a Christian vacation, separate from historic festivals like Samhain.

Halloween actions embody trick-or-treating (or the related guising and souling), attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, enjoying pranks, visiting haunted points of interest, telling scary tales, as nicely as watching horror movies. In many components of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows' Eve, including attending church providers and lighting candles on the graves of the useless, remain popular, though elsewhere it is a more industrial and secular celebration. Some Christians traditionally abstained from meat on All Hallows' Eve, a tradition mirrored within the eating of sure vegetarian meals on this vigil day, including apples, potato pancakes, and soul cakes.

The traditions and significance of Halloween differ tremendously amongst nations that observe it. In Scotland and Ireland, traditional Halloween customs embrace kids dressing up in costume going guising, holding parties, while different practices in Ireland embrace lighting bonfires, and having firework displays. In Brittany youngsters would play practical jokes by setting candles inside skulls in graveyards to frighten guests. Mass transatlantic immigration in the nineteenth century popularized Halloween in North America, and celebration in the United States and Canada has had a major impact on how the event is observed in different nations. This larger North American affect, significantly in iconic and business elements, has extended to locations corresponding to Ecuador, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, (most) continental Europe, Japan, and different parts of East Asia. In the Philippines, during Halloween, Filipinos return to their hometowns and purchase candles and flowers, in preparation for the following All Saints Day (Araw ng mga Patay) on 1 November and All Souls Day – although it falls on 2 November, most of them observe it on the day before. In Mexico and Latin America generally, it's referred to as Día de Muertos which translates in English to Day of the useless. Most of the people from Latin America construct altars in their houses to honor their deceased family members and so they decorate them with flowers and candies and different choices.

On Hallowe'en (All Hallows' Eve), in Poland, believers have been as soon as taught to pray out loud as they walk via the forests so that the souls of the dead might discover comfort; in Spain, Christian clergymen in tiny villages toll their church bells in order to remind their congregants to remember the lifeless on All Hallows' Eve. In Ireland, and amongst immigrants in Canada, a customized consists of the Christian apply of abstinence, maintaining All Hallows' Eve as a meat-free day, and serving pancakes or colcannon instead. In Mexico kids make an altar to ask the return of the spirits of dead youngsters (angelitos).

The Christian Church historically noticed Hallowe'en through a vigil.