Sunday, November 14, 2010

Halloween, masks and the history of Halloween


Far and away the most popular use masks, today, vaguely but definitively in the scene, are for the annual ritual of Halloween and especially in the United States.

The evening of October 31 long was celebrated in the Church as the eve of all Saints Day Media ' and is called correctly all the-Hallow-even. Originally, in the UK before, it was the eve of the day of the year.Basically, it is a watch to celebrate the day commemorating the saints and martyrs, which originally had no specific public recognition in the form of their own party and was finally established in its current form to the ninth siècle.Par subsequently, on 2 November was dedicated to all the other Holy souls who made the sky but not been canonized as saints - All Souls Day.

All-Hallow-even or all dead Eve also become secularized Halloween, deriving from its roots Celtic and Gaelic in the UK this .This includes a tradition for children a chance of "trick or treat" - to visit houses, carrying a grey-o-Lantern (a carved pumpkin to resemble an evil face with a candle lit within the), scheduled a delight. If treatment is not forthcoming, the tradition allows children to play a trick on the brochure.

In Scotland Halloween has acquired a special meaning in part because of this name by Robert Burns's poem. Young guys and girls, who observe certain rites are supposed on tonight in their future wives and husbands have revealed their.

Ireland is quoted as being the origin of the secular celebration or modern Pagan and Irish emigrants to their superstitions with them in the United States.

Modern popularity have been greatly stimulated where a mask is used to conceal the identity of the murderer scary Halloween horror film series.Today the popular masks for Halloween include range Slipknot, Homer Simpson masks and gorilles.Les masks masks of Slipknot, created by the band heavy metal of the same name, based on a wide range of influences, not least & M, as well as the maggots, clowns and skulls.

The lead characters in the popular adult American comic strip series have all created available on the market, with especially Homer Simpson mask masks score high in demand.

Gorilla mask very same rate for Halloween, joined by all sorts of other evil as hell-Pack werewolves, bats, sharks and dangerous creatures or even stupid mutants of all kinds.

As with so many Christian holidays deriving from earlier pagan celebrations, it sometimes seems a wide gap between Christian devotion on the one hand and the modern version of the pagan ritual on the other u.s. ' a link, I can't help feeling that it resides in the common cause to try to put the fear of God in us, come Hell or High Water, probably the first!).







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