Few people know that the popular American holiday Halloween, it does not come from America, but its roots back to Celtic times. And went to America in the nineteenth century, together with Irish emigrants. Thus the history of this festival is quite complicated, especially since it was not accepted by the Catholic Church. In ancient Celtic times it was a great celebration of the moon, and was called Samhain. Associated with the beginning of the year, a farewell to autumn and winter greeting. It was celebrated on Oct. 31, it was time to spend barns and livestock pens to protect animals against the hardships of winter cold weather. Rebuked the time of short days and long nights, but I welcome the new year, gave always hope for better times. Opened the gates of the future, because they wanted to say goodbye to the sorrows and hardships of the past. It is also the feast of parting with the dead. Therefore in that day incited by the souls of the dead, and to erase the peace and gave the inhabitants of the earth a better and more prosperous future. It was felt that at that time come to earth, zziębnięte souls of the dead. Among them may be ghosts, demons, who wanted to make people hurt. Therefore, Celtic priests, called druids various construction, scary masks and costumes, designed to imitate the demons and ghosts. Dresses do not danced around the blazing fires, doing a lot of noise, so that it simply drive away, as far away from human habitations. This was also a good time for divination, because it is believed that the open gates of the future, a multitude of souls living on earth, helping magicians. To ensure the favor of the spirits, were placed in the atria and chambers kitchen specially prepared food. Even today in some parts of Polish is cultivated the habit of cooking the bread of the dead, petryczki, powałki, or bread for the soul. Of course, every region had its own, for his name.
Halloween is associated with a lot of fun. The most popular is catching apples (boobing for apples), which through the teeth to catch floating in the bathtub or pool apples. Another popular play is eating without hands hanging on the filaments of cakes and fruit. For Halloween fun also includes divination, for example, telling the saucers. Sitting at the table blindfolded person chooses one of stojąch saucers on the table. The contents of the saucer bode events for next year. a Po Polsku; Z Halloween związane jest wiele zabaw. Najpopularniejszą jest łapanie jabłek (boobing for apples), w której za pomocą zębów należy wyłowić pływające w wannie lub basenie jabłka. Inną popularną zabawą jest zjadanie bez pomocy rąk wiszących na nitkach ciastek i owoców. Do zabaw Halloweenowych należą także wróżby, na przykład: Wróżenie ze spodków. Siedząca za stołem z zawiązanymi oczami osoba wybiera jeden ze stojąch na stole spodków. Zawartość spodka wróży wydarzenia na przyszły rok.
