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These festivals give their origin in the rituals of Celtic culture.

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The arrival of winter marked the beginning of the dark year and the celebrated chestnuts

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were collected and roasted in large communal bonfires since fire received rich symbolings

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for the Celts.

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In Spain, Halloween smells like chestnuts.

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Although its current celebration was spread mainly in the United States and the surrounding

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areas of the Anglo-Saxon world, more and more people have decided to join this party

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and follow the line imposed by Hollywood and the North American giant.

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However, each country usually has its own celebrations for All Saints Day

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and these are reluctant to disappear.

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In the case of Spain, there are typical festivals for the night of October 31st,

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such as Magosto, in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula and the Castañeda in Catalonia.

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Magosto is usually celebrated especially in Galicia.

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Altraud aslo in other parts of the city.

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Spain's geography sucks at Salamanca, Cáceres, Zamora, and even outside our borders.

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In Portugal, where it is called Mangost.

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In Catalonia, it's known as Castellada and chestnuts are usually accompanied with muscat

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wind or sweet potatoes.

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The country vascos call it Catrinea, it's Cantabria, it is Mangosta and Asturias a Manguetsu,

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where the chestnuts are taken with sweet silder.

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Each gnaw names its festival according to its roots and traditions.

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All goats are focused on welcoming the month of November and have as a great protagonist

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common to rusted chestnuts.

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In Galicia, in fact, the mangosto continues to have importance to the deceased during

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their celebrations, and it is considered for the stoves to be left on all the nights for

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they did to find their wife home, work up, and take the food often made by family members.

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This type of details is where we find the common elements with the Celtic Samhain that

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is still celebrated in Ireland and that has been maintained in Galicia under the name

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of Samhain, before potatoes and corns were bought from America and acquired the relevance

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that they maintain today chestnuts and acorns were a fundamental part of the diet of unsigned people

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and the peasant population for centuries they used to be consumed fresh dried or ground to

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make flour but is rested from talk on a certain relevance in celebration likes the one we are

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dealing with. When the bonfire begins to burn out and generates embers, a metal cylinder

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with holes is placed on top with the chestnuts are placed so that they are roasted

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little by little with the heat. This difference between pumpkins and chestnuts is almost obvious

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if we think about the origin of both. Spain has had a large percentage of chestnut trees

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since the Roman Empire promoted its cultivation and, as we have already said, its fruit was

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a staple food of the majority of the population for centuries.

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On the other hand, the use of pumpkins on Halloween comes from the United States and

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a surplus of this vegetable at the end of the 19th century.

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There are several traditions.

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Dia de las Calaveras, from La Rioja.

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Dia de las Calaveras is a Celtic tradition that derives from the festival of Samhain.

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Following tradition, the children empty and carve the pumpkins in the shape of a school,

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placing a little candle inside.

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Then they go through the town in search of candies or sweets, while they sing a song.

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In addition to this, on November 1st, the All Saints Flower Market is held in Logroño.

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The Festival of Dos Santos, from Andalucía Taking advantage of the fact that the people

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of Cadiz flocked to buy typical autumn products on November 31, in 1876, it was agreed to

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decorate the stalls of the central market as well as the square and its surroundings.

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Currently, retailers not only decorate their stalls but also make comic and satirical representations with their products of events that have had political or social relevance during the year.

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La chaquetía from Extremadura

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Traditionally, la chaquetía referred to the Christmas gift that children collect from their relatives or neighbors during All Saints Day.

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Currently, this tradition has become the afternoon snack of November 1st or 2nd that usually

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takes place in the field and in which fruits of the time are consumed such as walnuts or

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chestnuts.

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La Noche de los Muertos de Ánimas, from Murcia In Murcia, the ancient traditions of Todos

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los Santos are still very strong, especially the gastronomic ones.

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The traditional All Saints Market in the Plaza de San Pedro in Murcia collects all the traditional

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region pastries, fig bread, flower porridge, orange blossom honey, and various kinds of

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wine filters and saint bones.

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Of course, you cannot miss the sweet star, the syrup and pumpkin.

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Don Juan Tenorio, Madrid The true origin of the tradition of performing

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the Tenorio on the eve of Saint's Day is unknown, but the popular custom of going to

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see José Torreya's plays is still very present in many theatres in the country.

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In Alcalá de Henares this performance has become more than a tribute, it has become

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a unique festivity.

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The play comes to life and is performing outdoors in five locations in the town, including the

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cemetery.

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La Estantigua, Castilla la Mancha Traditionally, on the eve of Saint's Eve,

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a large bonfire was held in the middle of the village, as a symbol of protection against

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of Antigua, a procession of the living dead. In recent years, these traditions have been

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supplanted by Halloween, a Catholic holiday in which children dress up as angels, nuns,

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bishops, saints and priests. This party has become common in Toledo, Talavera de la Reina

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and Madrid Ejos.

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La Moraga Castilla y León La Moraga is a tradition of medieval and

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Christian origin, in which family and friends gathered in the country to roast chernuts.

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This popular festival is still held in many regions and villages of Castilla y León,

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where after worshipping the dead in the cemeteries, many people gather to roast chernuts and snacks

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on other roads and streets.

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In villages of the Sierra de Gredos, chernuts are accompanied with a liqueur made with musk

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and brandy called La Angélica.

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Sa Tranqueda and Ses Bubotes, Islas Baleares.

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In Ibiza and Formentera, in the past, the whole family would get together to make San

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Tranqueda, a dinner based on dry foods, bunjos and old panellets.

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In Menorca, Mallorca, there was the custom of wrapping oneself, combining it in sheets to simulate a ghost or bubotta.

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Nowadays, traditions such as giving sugar groceries, being nearly made of sweets that godparents give to their godchildren,

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and getting together to eat the typical bonjour, are still the protagonists of our sun's day.

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The Night of the Finaos in Las Canarias

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The Night of the Finaos, or Night of the Decas, began as a poor family celebration in which people stayed all night sharing stories and jokes, drinking wine and eating chernuts, nuts and sweets.

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In the neighborhood of Vegetta, in the heart of Las Palmas, this popular Canarian tradition filled the streets with malagueñas.

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roasted chernut, bones of the sign, wine and rum and honey.

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The use of pumpkins

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The method of protection against these evil spirits, jacks or lathes, were the pumpkins they were given hideous shapes,

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no is friendly as is done today and they place on the doors to scare him so that

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he would not enter. The Constumens. The origin of the Constumens has come from

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the Celtic era and is that they were used to dry away evil spirits, adopting their

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appearance to avoid being harmed. On Scotland, for example, young people dressed in white and

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were smacked as though they were called elves, with their faces painted black. The result is someone

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stealing. Knives of the souls, your own. Traditionally, during the knives of souls,

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on November 1, a courier was made of illuminated pumpkins to the gravedigger to guide the souls

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strapped in the people. This tradition continues to be celebrated in Alto Aragón, in the towns

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of Rediquero and Graus, where they continue to carry hungins in the shape of skulls