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The origins of Halloween can be traced back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. Celtic traditions played a significant role in shaping the Halloween we know today, with practices such as bonfires, costumes, and supernatural beliefs.
EASTWICK - "Bonfire and Betrayal" - In Eastwick, Halloween is the most important holiday of the year, when the town embraces its heritage with a good old-fashioned witch burning. Haunted by visions of a funeral, Roxie races to save those she loves from peril - but can she change fate?
- Halloween’s Shifting Meaning
- The ‘Emerging Adult’ and The Space Between
- Millennial Monsters
Sociologists tell us if you want to understand a culture, look at its holidays. Christmas gift-giving rituals shed light on how we manage social relationships. Thanksgiving feasts depend on shared understandings of family and national origin stories. Halloween, with its emphasis on identity, horror and transgression, can tell us about who we want t...
Today’s young adults, it could be argued, are living in a sort of purgatory. Traditional markers of adult responsibility and independence – family, career, home ownership – have either been delayedor abandoned altogether, by choice or necessity. Transitions to adulthood have become uncertain, drawn out and complicated. In recent years, psychologist...
So why might an emerging adult be drawn to Halloween? Most obviously, Halloween costumes let them experiment and explore self and identity. The possibilities are endless. Witch? Robot couple? Sexy Robot? Emoji? Banksy’s shredded art? Young adults I’ve spoken with often identify this as their favorite part of the holiday – the chance to be, at least...
Oct 25, 2012 · The Retail Council of Canada estimated in 2014 that Halloween represents a $1-billion industry in Canada. According to a 2014 survey, 68 per cent of Canadians celebrate Halloween and 33 per cent of adults attend a Halloween party. Canadians spend more per capita ($70) on costumes, candy and decorations than Americans.
Oct 26, 2018 · All Hallows' Eve, or Halloween as it is commonly referred, is a global celebration on October 31. It developed from the ancient Celtic ritual of Samhain, which was, in the simplest terms, a festival celebrating the changing of the seasons from light to dark (summer to winter). This would usually take place around November 1.
Halloween’s origins can be traced back to the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain, which was held on November 1 in contemporary calendars. It was believed that on that day, the souls of the dead returned to their homes, so people dressed in costumes and lit bonfires to ward off spirits. In this way, popular Halloween tropes such as ...
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Oct 30, 2013 · 2. We need candy. My nine-year-old son actually provided this as the main reason why humans need Halloween—“I need candy, Daddy!”—and my own extremely scientific survey confirms that 10 out of 10 kids like candy. I assumed that there must be a good evolutionary reason for this—and some googling did turn up evidence to support my son ...
