Halloween is a festival with various costumes, candies and fun-filled tricks and of course, those terrible houses and black cats. But since when all this started? Who started to celebrate the Halloween festival and where?

Halloween has a history of around 2000 years. Many people believe that Halloween has originated in the Celtic festival of Samhain. The people of Celtic also known as Celts were staying in Ireland, UK and some of the parts in northern France. These people used to celebrate their New Year on the first date of November. And on the earlier night of the New Year Samhain festival was celebrated.

The Celt people trust that New Year begins at the start of cold and dark days and ends with the end of the summer. The months of winter are related to death, which is another belief by the Celt people. According to these people, on the arrival of New Year, the ghosts of the dead people come back to earth.

The history of the trick-or-treating, is supposed to exists probably in the All Soul’s Day parades from the English region. During these celebrations, the poor people in the city will come out and ask for food from the comparatively wealthy people. When the food in the form of “soul cakes” is given to the poor, they are also asked to pray for the people who have recently passed away.

Dressing in costumes could have originated from European as they believed that a winter was a horrible period. It was colder and darker with less food availability. In the fear of the ghosts, they could not go out for the search of new food. So they could have made trick to wear masks and costumes so that the ghosts do not recognize them as humans.