All Hallow's evening or Halloween is a ritual basically celebrated in the foreign countries. Basically in the western countries. Its a Christian ritual of remembering the dead, the soul's, the hallows(the dead saints), martyrs the traditional focus of All Hallows' Eve revolves around the theme of using "humor and ridicule to confront the power of death.
Some Scholars say that this Halloween festival has flourished from the harvest festivals, where the farmers used to celebrate the first crop of the year by donating the pumpkins in the name of their beloed who passed away whereas the others say that this has just got up from the old Christian roots.
Nowadays Halloween has spread amongst various religion and races, and many kinds of people celebrate this ritual for fun.
A special tradition of Halloween is to cut a pumpkin into a special ghost like structure which is known as jack-o-lantern. Rather than that, to watch horror movies, go to costume parties, stay awake the whole night, visit haunted places, light up candles on the graves, play spooky pranks, tell ghost stories, light up homes with candles.
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