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From communion with the dead to pumpkins and pranks, 00:00:00
Halloween is a patchwork holiday stitched together with cultural, 00:00:11
religious, and occult traditions that span centuries. 00:00:16
It all began with the Celts, a people whose culture had spread across Europe more than 2,000 years ago. 00:00:22
October 31st was the day they celebrated the end of the harvest season in a festival called Sowing. 00:00:29
That night also marked the Celtic New Year 00:00:35
and was considered a time between years, 00:00:38
a magical time when the ghost of the dead walked the Earth. 00:00:41
It was the time when the veil between death and life 00:00:45
was supposed to be at its thinnest. 00:00:52
On Samhain, the villagers gathered and lit 00:00:57
huge bonfires to drive the dead back to the spirit world 00:01:00
and keep them away from the living. 00:01:04
But as the Catholic Church's influence grew in Europe, 00:01:06
it frowned on the pagan rituals like Samhain. 00:01:10
In the seventh century, the Vatican 00:01:13
began to merge it with a church-sanctioned holiday. 00:01:15
So November 1 was designated All Saints Day 00:01:19
to honor martyrs and the deceased faithful. 00:01:22
Both of these holidays had to do with the afterlife 00:01:26
and about survival after death. 00:01:30
It was a calculated move on the part of the church to bring more people into the fold. 00:01:33
All Saints Day was known then as Hallowmas. 00:01:41
Hallow means holy or saintly, so the translation is roughly Mass of the Saints. 00:01:45
The night before, October 31st, was All Hallows' Eve, which gradually morphed into Halloween. 00:01:51
The holiday came to America with the wave of Irish immigrants 00:01:59
during the potato famine of the 1840s. 00:02:03
They brought several of their holiday customs with them, 00:02:07
including bobbing for apples and playing tricks on neighbors, 00:02:11
like removing gates from the front of houses. 00:02:15
The young pranksters wore masks so they wouldn't be recognized. 00:02:19
But over the years, the tradition of harmless tricks 00:02:22
grew into outright vandalism. 00:02:25
Back in the 1930s, it really became a dangerous holiday. 00:02:28
I mean, there was such hooliganism and vandalism. 00:02:34
Trick-or-treating was originally a extortion deal. 00:02:41
Give us candy or we'll trash your house. 00:02:46
Storekeepers and neighbors 00:02:50
began giving treats, or bribes, to stop the tricks, 00:02:51
and children were encouraged to travel door-to-door 00:02:55
for treats as an alternative to troublemaking. 00:02:58
By the late 30s, trick-or-treat became the holiday greeting. 00:03:01
Subido por:
Andrea S.
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24 de octubre de 2020 - 12:40
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