5 Things You Never Knew About Halloween
- 5 years ago
Here are five Halloween
facts you might not have known.
1 The 2,000 year-old pagan festival —
known as "Samhain" — began in Ireland
to mark the end of fall's harvest.
2 The Celtic legend
of "Stingy Jack", told of a trickster farmer
who carved a lantern
out of a turnip to light
his way through purgatory.
3 It's the second-largest
holiday industry after Christmas.
4 Trick-or-treaters Used to dance for their Treats. Known as
"mumming"
or "guysing," the European
practice dates
back to
medieval times.
5 Before it was
tamed in
the 1950s, vandalism plagued
Halloween in America.
It was also a night to
predict future romance.
facts you might not have known.
1 The 2,000 year-old pagan festival —
known as "Samhain" — began in Ireland
to mark the end of fall's harvest.
2 The Celtic legend
of "Stingy Jack", told of a trickster farmer
who carved a lantern
out of a turnip to light
his way through purgatory.
3 It's the second-largest
holiday industry after Christmas.
4 Trick-or-treaters Used to dance for their Treats. Known as
"mumming"
or "guysing," the European
practice dates
back to
medieval times.
5 Before it was
tamed in
the 1950s, vandalism plagued
Halloween in America.
It was also a night to
predict future romance.