All of us have eagerly waited for Halloween to arrive, in our childhoods, for the candies and chocolates we were supposed to get that day. However, Halloween is not just about the candies and chocolates. Halloween is an annual holiday on the 31st of October and it includes a lot of fun activities like costume parties, trick or treating, carving the jack-o-lanterns, apple bobbing, bonfires, playing pranks, visiting haunted places, telling each other scary stories, watching horror films etc. Some folklorists believe that Halloween has its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona or maybe in the festival of the dead which is known as “Parentalia.” However, some say it is more typically related to the Celtic festival called as “Samhain”. Though, there a lot of alternate stories to the origin of this festival, which is usually celebrated to scare people, but are in fact not true.
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