Uncategorized - Saturday, November 1, 2008 2:12 - 0 Comments

MACOREKX: Happy Halloween To All

Well it’s this time again where kids or some older people try to scare others, some have this horror costume party and most importantly visited their love ones who already passed away. That’s the important of this time of the year.

It’s already November 1 here in the Philippines but what is really or how does the ‘Halloween’ originated. I’ve done some research and i want to share it to all of you who frequently visit this website.

Halloween (or Hallowe’en) is a mostly national holiday celebrated on the evening of October 31; today it is often celebrated in the morning and afternoon as well. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o’-lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom and at times in parts of New Zealand. In Sweden, the All Saints’ official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November.

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