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Witche´s night

The ancient Celtic people used to perform a great ceremony to commemorate the end of the harvest and the beginning of a new cycle, since this celebration took p...
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The ancient Celtic people used to perform a great ceremony to commemorate the end of the harvest and the beginning of a new cycle, since this celebration took place on October 31, which was when the Celtic year ended during the autumn, whose main characteristic is the fall of the leaves. And for them it meant the end of death or initiation of a new life. This teaching spread through the years from generation to generation at the end of October.
With the rise of Catholicism, the pagan holiday became Christianized, and began to be called All Hallows' Eve. Translated into English as All Hallow's Eve, this is how the word Halloween and the celebration we know today as Halloween was born.
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