Halloween is celebrated on October 31st in Canada. The evening of All Saints’ Day, a favorite family holiday celebration observed with traditional games, customs, trick-or-treating around the neighborhood, and carving pumpkins.
Many cities and towns across Canada offer ghost walks, graveyard tours and other haunted outings. Halloween is celebrated and enjoyed by children all around the world. Children dress up in funny or scary costumes. Adults may also dress in costume for Halloween parties.
The word Halloween comes from medieval England’s All Hallows’ eve. celebration based on ancient Druid customs dating back to 700 B.C. a Celtic religious order in ancient Britain, Ireland and France, believed that, spirits and the dead can cross over into the world of the living.Witches and other evil spirits were believed to roam the earth on Halloween evening, playing tricks on human beings especially on kids. Each year on that night, the Druids would build bonfires and offer sacrifices of dainty foods , sweets and animals, and individuals would dress in costumes to disguise themselves from these spirits, to avoid demonic persecution. Today customers are based on many non Christian heroes and popular children stars like Harry Potter, Superman, Batman, Yu-Gi-Oh and others, but Harry Potter is probably the most popular in last few years or dressed up as ghosts, witches, skeletons or other characters some people hold parties putting t a lot of effort into decorating their homes, yards and drives.
Popular activities at parties include watching horror films and trying to make fellow guests jump in fright. Children may trick-or-treat in their neighborhood to receive candies and money lately, and because of that Halloween has after Christmas Holiday become children’s favorite holiday.
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