Comments by "marie parker" (@marieparker3822) on "Stupidly Offensive Halloween Costumes" video.

  1. As a Celtic-Norse person, I and my little friends always celebrated Samhain (pronounced Sowwen), halfway between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice - the end of all harvests, and the beginning of winter, the time when the veil between our world and the underworld is at its thinnest, therefore spirits may sometimes cross it. We had great fun disguised (we were guisers), going round the town knocking on doors of complete strangers who accepted us into their houses, judging our dressing up, and we had to do a 'turn' - a song, poem, story for example, in return for tangerines, apples, hazelnuts, a few coins. We had no idea who the people were, and they had no idea who we were. It was a novelty for everyone. Disguising oneself is necessary in case spirits of people who didn't like you too much came through from the underworld and did you a mischief. You also provided food and entertainment for the fairies. Children's Halloween parties were fun - ducking for apples, etc. All Hallows' Eve is the Christianised name of the festval, followed by a recognition of the dead in All Saints' Dsy and All Souls' Day, on 1 and 2 November. It is now a children's festival, in my book.🙂
    16