Halloween is a holiday celebrated every year on October 31st. It started as the Celtic “Samhain” festival. Samhain roughly means “summer’s end”, also sometimes celebrated as Celtic New Year. The Celts believed that the border between the spirit world and ours wore thin on Samhain, allowing spirits, both evil and harmless, to pass through. Most would disguise themselves in costumes and masks so that the spirits would see them as spirits as well, and not harm them. Jack o lanterns also were used to the same effect, but made of hollowed out turnips for the ancient Celts.
Modern Halloween includes themes of death, monsters, evil and magic. Jack o lanterns are made of pumpkins and places near the front door with comical or scary faces. Many people of all ages like to dress up in costumes of pop culture figures, animals, monsters and the like. Some Halloween games include bobbing for apples, playing practical jokes on the neighbourhood, telling stories and attempting to communicate with spirits.
With a little makeup, anyone can look like a zombie.
A green skull shaped fog machine.
My Jack O Lantern... Made in the image of the average truck driver.
A witch tearing off her own head next to her cauldron.
Lastly, a skull shaped Jack O Lantern.
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