In the United States, it ' s that time of yearwhen children dress in costume and paradethe neighborhood, asking for sugary treats.Families may share scary stories around abonfire, or curl up with popcorn to watchhorror movies.
Halloween is upon us, with more than 175 million Americans planning to partake in
festivities this year, according to the NationalRetail Federation.
Yet in other countries around the world, thereare some very different celebrations that occur during the last week of October or firstdays of November.
Halloween is pretty much a North Americanholiday, as we celebrate it now, said ReginaHansen, a master lecturer at Boston University' s College of General Studies, whohas expertise in Halloween-related practicesthroughout history and popular culture.
There are countries that have All Saints '
celebrations or Day of the Dead or All SoulsDay type of celebrations that are not
Halloween, she said. "They are differentthings that happen to occur at the sametime.'
As American children delight in Halloweencelebrations, here is just a sampling of someother fall festivities that families may beengaging in around the world.
Remembering ancestors and lives lost
Around the same time as Halloween, somefamilies in Mexico gather to remember deceased friends and family members for aholiday known as Day of the Dead, on November 2nd. Celebrations typically begintwo days before. Halloween' S spooky origins Probably the first thing we have that is relatedto Halloween is this Irish Celtic festival knownas Samhain, which occurred at the end of October and this is often thought of as a newyear celebration, Hansen said.
The word Halloween is an abbreviated versionof the phrases All Hallows' Eve or All
,Hallowss Evening, but the celebration isbelieved to have come from that ancient
festival celebrated by Celtic people more than2,000 years ago.
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