From pagan ritual to party night, here's how Halloween became the spooky celebration we know today ⬇️
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"There was a belief that it was a day when spirits of the dead would cross over into the other world," Santino told Live Science. Such moments of transition in the year have always been thought to be special and supernatural, he added. Though a direct connection between Halloween and Samhain has never been proven, many scholars believe that because All Saints' Day and Samhain, are so close together on the calendar that they influenced each other and later combined into the celebration now called Halloween.
"Mass solicitation rituals are pretty common, and are usually associated with winter holidays," Santino said. While one tradition didn't necessarily cause the others, they were"similar and parallel," he said. However, Halloween was as much a time for festivities and games as it was for playing tricks or asking for treats. Apples are associated with Halloween, both as a treat and in the game of bobbing for apples, a game that since the colonial era in America was used for fortune-telling.
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