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On October 31, you will be greeted by witches, ghouls, demons, devils and monsters when you open the door to hand out your trick-or-treat goodies. Parties for the young and old will be popping off all over town where kids and adults bob for apples, dance to the “Monster Mash” and tell scary stories to spook each other. Jack-o-lanterns, witches, black cats and creepy cobwebs decorate the front porches of neighborhood homes. halloween is a spooky day, indeed, but where did it all start, and how? And what’s with that “trick or treat,” anyway?
Celtic legend leads us to believe that it began with their fascinating society and culture. The Celts believed that when a person died, they passed into a land of eternal happiness and youth, called Tirnan Og. This mythology predates the introduction of Christianity in their part of the world, and therefore they had no knowledge of the heaven or hell that the Christians later taught them about.
It was the mix of Christian theology and Celtic legends that led to the development of All Hallow’s Eve. On this night, the dead would return for in search of a living body to inhabit, which was said to be their only hope for the afterlife. However, modern views of the holiday differ greatly from earlier times. Today it’s more about the fun of trick-or-treating, putting on a costume, going door to door and gathering yummy sweets to fill your sack. There is simply a ton of fun, for all ages, in dressing up as your favorite fictional character, superhero or ghoulish creature. For one night you can be an entirely different person, or not a person at all!
From piety to party
For many hundreds of years Halloween was just one religious observance among many. Its reputation today is built on fun and parties, but some people seem to think that it was thought of as an evil holiday for hundreds of years. This in turn has put fear into a lot of people who might not know all the facts, and think of Halloween as some sort of anti-Christian celebration. This is not the case.
Halloween began with two different developments that coexisted peacefully. On the one hand, it was a celebration of the dead where people would gather in cemeteries around their departed loved ones. They would light candles, burn incense, pray and even dance around the headstones. They believed that by doing this it would help the dead on their journey through the afterlife. Many of those practices still find expressions today in the traditions of both cultures and individual families.
On the other hand, Halloween was a time for devout believers to ridicule the devil and make fun of demons and spirits. Dressing up as a witch and carrying a broom, or putting on a sheet to play a ghost, were exercises in religious propaganda, you might say. Irish immigrants brought several strands of this tradition to America in the 1800s, while other Western nations began to recognize the day (rather, the night) in the mid-1900s.
Halloween in the third millennium
Halloween was born in Europe, and it is still primarily the Western world that recognizes and, in different ways, celebrates it. October 31st is the designated day in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Ireland, New Zealand, Japan, the United Kingdom and certain areas of Australia.
For adults, Halloween resembles nothing so much as a mix of masquerade balls and parties, something like Mardi Gras. People of all ages, in every disguise imaginable, participate in parades, decorate their homes, walk their children around the neighborhood and hand out candy at their front doors. For the kids, of course, it is a day and night of myth, mystery, magic and enchantment – and candy, of course.
Halloween has often been misunderstood as an evil day, which was never the case, and there are some people who still take it all much too seriously and seem unable to separate fact from fiction. So, if you are afraid of demons, monsters and creatures from another planet, and begin to see them invading your neighborhood, don’t worry. Just check you calendar. It’s probably Halloween, and it’s all for fun!
Ocean Zhang
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Halloween is a time for wearing different costumes and enjoying the festive occasion. Adults enjoy dressing up and scaring others just as much as the children. To find the right and the best dress for Halloween is quite a task. A lot of time should be taken and research done to come up with the best dress.
The costume can be chosen according to each ones taste. This is the time to dress up in a wild, funny and different manner and become a changed person for the halloween party. You should first be creative and think of some different costume to wear. Some might want it to be comical and funny, others might want it to be sexy or scary or even nasty, and still others might want to dress up as some popular figure – a movie or a cartoon personality. Some might even want to dress up as their boss or the animal that they like best. Some might even want to dress up as a sports person that they like.
Finding the best adult costumes needs a little bit of research. You need to go to the internet and find out the best loved costumes. You can browse through old catalogues and magazines and get some fun ideas. Family and friends might also be of help.
You can get the costumes either from the departmental stores and add on accessories to make it look exactly like the dress you want to wear, or you can make your own dress. You can also order the dress you want. You can go to a fabric store or a craft store and get ideas and material to dress up as the character you want to portray.
You can get dressed as movie characters, like Dracula, Superman, Spiderman, Indiana Jones, the Star Wars, and others. The television is another place where you can represent characters in sitcoms that you like. Adult groups can dress up like Charlie’s Angles or Three Amigos. You can dress up as real life celebrities like Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston. You can also dress up like political figures. You can get dressed as a vampire, a pirate, a ghost or take up any theme you like from fantasy.
You can find ideas everywhere, even right in your own home. It is just to look different and enjoy the fun. Small accessories can help make the costume different, like a veil, a pair of wings, a mask, some different shoes and nails, some wigs that give you the right look, the clothes that can be found in your own home. Looking through the collection at home, browsing through magazines, searching the internet and asking family and friends will give you a lot of ideas to give you the new, different look.
With the presidential elections coming, people would want to dress up like Barack Obama and Sarah Palin. There is also a growing popularity for costumes of superheroes and villains.
Some of the most popular costumes for a 2008 Halloween party are dressing up as witch, pirate, vampire, fairy, ghost, nurse, angel clown witch, a French maid, and a Queen. Political or famous personalities are also well liked.
The costume of Paris Hilton is also popular this year. The costume of Indiana Jones with the hat and the whip is popular. Men and women can wear it. Dressing up as Amy Winehouse is popular in 2008. The trademark big beehive and cigarette can be added. She has been in the news this year. The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader dress can also be tried out .it will be a great hit since the tryout is starting this month. Sarah Palin is also a popular figure and you can dress up like her.
With these ideas and many more you can surely become the best dressed person in the Halloween party. Go ahead, find the dress you want and go to the party.
jackson
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The first and foremost task involved in preparing for Halloween is to look out for places on where you can get yourself the costume you have been wanting to wear and show off amongst your friends. Halloween is all about wearing the dress you never even imagine of wearing on any other day of the year. Of course you would know that or else you would not be reading this article. The best option to look for ideas, on where to buy costumes or how to prepare one, is the Internet. Like all other information, tons of ideas for Halloween can be found on the Internet. Even though this article does not contain all the ideas for a complete Halloween, it would definitely help you start your preparation.
Halloween is just about creating a theme and strictly abiding to the theme. You can also have a normal party with people coming in different costumes but it would be real fun if you set aside a theme for Halloween. halloween is about having fun decorations making it scary and eerie.
Let us take some time in going through a few ideas that can make you Halloween interesting.
Idea #1 – Do you have a bush in front of your house? Or can you create one just for the occasion? If yes, you are about to be the point of attraction in your neighborhood. Make a note of the items required for this idea. You need a white sheet as per the size of the bush, a newspaper, permanent black magic marker or fabric paint and cloth pins. The idea is to make a ghost like figure by painting a ghost on the white paper, folding the white sheet, balancing the sheet with the newspaper and securing the figure with the help of clothespins. Sounds really simple but it is definitely going to scare the passerby.
Idea #2 – The other idea for Halloween is to make your house look very festive and very scary, both the inside and the outside. I will show you how to get a scary path way. You will need lots of brown lunch bags, orange paint, sand and tea light or votive candle. Paint the bags orange in color and cut it out to make a scary face of a pumpkin. Fill half of the pumpkin face with sand and put a candle in it and light it. Make lots of these along the pathway and it would look really scary.
Idea #3 – You will require orange construction paper, white construction paper, pencil, scissors, string, tape, glue and staples. Draw a picture of a ghost on the white chart paper and pumpkin faces on the orange one. Be sure to make it a free hand draw to get originality. Also leave some space on top of the chart so that you can hang it to make a garland of ghosts and pumpkin faces. Fold over the space and place the string by the fold. Secure the created articles using staples, glue and tape. The pumpkin garland would look good with a green string and the ghosts with a black string to have a good contrast. Hang them all round your house and start the party.
Apart from these ideas, tons of examples and ideas can be found on the World Wide Web, but the best information center is your brain. As said creativity is the master of all arts.
Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/holidays-articles/halloween-arts-crafts-ideas-look-spooky-this-halloween-740267.html
Halloween is all about having fun with your friends and family. Among the best parts of Halloween are decorating the house with hand made crafts. And when these crafts are all hand made, the more the merrier! At times space constraints bar us from this pleasure.
Now I’m sure, you all must be looking for some free Halloween crafts that are easy enough for you to follow and can fit in little space!
Well, internet is a hub for several ideas. Once you have the ideas and tips and tricks, you can use your innovative skills to make the ideas even more interesting. Creativity and imagination is the key to make your decorations as exclusive and attractive and spooky as you wish to. Here are a few ideas to get started:
1. Tissue Ghosts
This is perhaps the writer’s favorite. Take a piece of Kleenex. Gather it together such that it forms a bulb at the top and the bottom should be splaying out. Shaped almost like a ghost! Now, with a rubber band twist and tie to maintain the shape of the bulb. You can also uses a garbage bag for the same. This becomes the ghost’s head. So just tie it as tight as possible! Now grab on a black magic marker to dot in the eyes, nose and mouth. The Kleenex ghost is ready to spook around. You can make loads of these and hang around the house. This would impress your friends & family and friends. You would be able to boast as a halloween crafts pro!
2. Egg Carton Bats
This idea is quite simple. Get some simple stuff like egg cartons, a pair of scissors (safety scissors in case the child is younger), and black paint. Cut out 3 egg cups from the egg carton and ensure that they remain attached. Check that the egg carton must be clean. Now the outside cups would turn in to two bat wings – simply cut their front and back. Now paint the whole thing in black. Attach goodly eyes for the real impact or simply paint the eyes using white paint. Here, the middle cup becomes the face. Now make a hole on the top of the middle cup and pass a string through it. Make a sturdy knot so that it doesn’t slip through this hole. Now, put the string in this hole. Finally hang the bats where ever you feel like.
Try using a combination of waterproof paint and Styrofoam egg carton. These bats are perfect to decorate the trees outside the house.
Now on experiment with what ever wastes you get your hand on at home and develop your own spooky fun decorations for Halloween!
Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/holidays-articles/create-halloween-crafts-from-scrap-2-exciting-ideas-740244.html
This creepy, crawly release collects nine halloween-themed animated shorts from the Cartoon Network. Titles include “The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy,” “Ed, Edd N Eddy,” “Johnny Bravo, and more.
