Happy Halloween from your friends at TuffWrap! Wishing You a ghoulish good time. Stay safe and have fun!
Halloween 2024 takes place on Thu, Oct 31st.
Fast facts about Halloween:
- The American Halloween tradition is likely to originate from the Celtic festival Samhain.
- Samhain marked the end of the harvest season and the transition between summer and winter.
- During Samhain people believed that the barrier between the Otherworld and the living was thin. This allowed more interaction between the two worlds.
- All Souls Day, All Saints Day, All Hallows Eve, and Day of the Dead are other names for Halloween
- The Jack-o’-lantern combines Old World and American Halloween traditions.
- The Irish legend of Stingy Jack inspired the making of Jack-o’-lanterns. He outwitted the devil using underhanded methods.
- Trick-or-treating has its origins in the medieval English tradition of “souling”. Children went door-to-door on All Souls Day to ask for food and money in exchange for praying for the souls of the deceased.
- Bobbing for apples is a traditional Halloween game. According to tradition, the first person to pluck an apple from a bucket of water without using their hands would be the first to get married.
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