 Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints, but is today largely a secular celebration.Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, bonfires, apple bobbing,pranks and watching horror films.

HHHHistorian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia,more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain or Samuin".The name is derived from Old Irish and means rude "summer's end".A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf. SSSSnap-Apple Night by Daniel Maclise showing a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland, in The young children on the right bob for apples. A couple in the center play a variant, which involves retrieving an apple hanging from a string. The couples at left play divination games.The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year".

Halloween costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devilish. They are said to be used to scare off demons. Costumes are also based on themes other than traditional horror, such as those of characters from television shows, movies, and other pop culture icons. Halloween costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devilish. They are said to be used to scare off demons. Costumes are also based on themes other than traditional horror, such as those of characters from television shows, movies, and other pop culture icons.

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