Halloween (also known as All Hallows Eve or All Saints Day) is just around the corner and it’s certainly a time for tricks and treats! Typically we associate this as holiday of dressing up and going door to door filling up their pillow cases with candy but its origins are much different…
Halloween has its roots in an ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain which is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture (we just celebrated the end of the harvest up here with Canadian Thanksgiving). This festival was a time for taking inventory supplies and slaughtering livestock for winter stores. But why do we were costumes then if we are killing animals and checking our stock of supplies? Well, the wearing of costumes and masks at Halloween goes back to the Celtic traditions of attempting to copy the evil spirits. It is also thought of as a time when the living and the dead can be together again.
History aside, Halloween is now all about candy corn, jack-o-lanterns, apple bobbing and costumes (I’ll touch on those topics in the coming week)! But for today, I would like to touch on a few costumes ideas. Since everyone gets into the trick-or-treating excitement and some go so far as dressing up their pets, take a look at a few ideas for Fido or Fluffy:
Construction Worker?
Scuba Diver?
Giraffe?
Witch?
Um, a singer? What is this?
If you aren’t sure what to wear this year, be sure to check out Halloween Ideas by J-No, a guest-written blog by yours truly!
Until next time.
