History

How Favorite Halloween Traditions Came About

October rolls around and the anxious excitement of the holiday season starts to electrify your blood. You think back on years past of all of the fun times that you had, and there are some very specific traditions that stick out in your memory. Who can forget the first time they went trick-or-treating? Or how [...]

The Birth Of Halloween

The doorbell rings. “I wonder who it is?” “It’the trick-or-treaters honey. It’that time of year!” And so it is, a bunch of little kids in weird looking costumes begging for free candy. Where did this idea of Halloween come from? There must be some reason for all of this spooky hullabaloo and seemingly innocent trickery. [...]


An International History of Halloween

Halloween has its roots in many different cultures. America is a place where people have different traditions from their old cultures, and they come together to make new holidays that resemble aspects of the old traditions. Halloween can be found in some way or another in most countries in Europe and South America. Asian countries [...]

Brief Overview Of Halloween’s Origins

Are you interested in where modern day practices came from? America is a mixing pot of ideas, cultures, and traditions that has produced some interesting new ideas, culture, and modern day traditions. These have caught on and become nostalgic in the minds of the late 20th century society. One of those traditions that has arisen [...]