1. Halloween is celebrated on October 31.
2. Ancient Celtic practices, Catholic and Roman religious rituals, and European folk traditions were blended together to create Halloween.
3. Halloween has long been thought of as a day when the dead can return to the earth.
4. Ancient Celts lit bonfires and wore costumes to ward off roaming ghosts.
5. The Celtic holiday of Samhain, the Catholic Hallowmas period of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, and the Roman festival of Feralia influenced modern Halloween.
6. Halloween began to lose its religious connotation in the 19th century.
7. People celebrate Halloween in my country by dressing in costumes, going trick-or-treating, attending parties, carving pumpkins, and enjoying sweet treats.
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