A Marilyn Manson Halloween with Tainted Love

The Business and History of Halloween

Halloween, or Hallowe’en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, Halloween festivals, bonfires, costume parties, visiting “haunted houses” and viewing horror films. Halloween originated from the Pagan festival Samhain, celebrated among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century.

Halloween Celebrations

Halloween is now celebrated in several parts of the western world, most commonly in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom. The carved pumpkin, lit by a candle inside, is one of Halloween’s most prominent symbols.

The main event for children of modern Halloween in the United States and Canada is trick-or-treating, in which children disguise themselves in costumes and go door-to-door in their neighborhoods, ringing each doorbell and yelling “trick or treat!” to solicit a gift of candy or similar items.

There are several games traditionally associated with Halloween parties. The most common is dooking or bobbing for apples, in which apples float in a tub or a large basin of water; the participants must use their teeth to remove an apple from the basin.

Halloween Costumes Dressing Up for Halloween

One of the things that makes Halloween so wonderful is that you can dress up as any fantasy you want and have your persona excepted. Over the past few years, Halloween has seen a resurgence in popularity with adults and their Halloween festivities.

Adults can be seen in Halloween costumes at parties, costume contests, masquerade balls, themed nightclubs, and yes, even Trick or Treating. Popular classics like transforming yourself into a Sexy Witch to cast a spell over all who see you, maybe being a Vampire Seductress for the night, or taking on the sultry persona of the Queen of Halloween herself, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark!