Happy Halloween🎃 Trick or Treat!

It has started to get chilly in the mornings and evenings lately.
However, since there are still warm days during the daytime, I always struggle with what to wear this time of year.

And while I was thinking about that, it's already Halloween🎃 today.
I reached today without having prepared anything...

So, I wrote this article to provide some in-depth information aboutHalloweenso that everyone can enjoy it.
It's just a little bit of information, but I hope you enjoy it even a little.

The origins of Halloween date back to the Celtic calendar of the ancient Celts, the indigenous people of ancient Europe and Ireland.
October 31st was considered the end of the Celtic year, and a harvest festival was held for food, including pumpkins.

It was believed that on this night, the spirits of the dead would visit their families, and spirits and witches would appear.
It is said that people wore masks to protect themselves from them and lit bonfires to ward off evil.

November 1st, the day after Halloween, is the Christian saint's day
All Saints' Day, and Halloween is positioned as its eve.
All Saints' Day is a sacred day to offer prayers to all saints collectively.

The word Halloween also comes fromthe eve of All Saints' Daywhich represents
【All Hallows' Eve】.
Halloween is not originally a Christian festival, but it occupies an important position as the eve of All Saints' Day.

There are various legends among the Celts, such as that a spirit that had made a contract with the devil put the devil's fire into a pumpkin and wandered the earth as a light.
Witches on broomsticks would come to do mischief with black cats.

These various legends developed, and it is said that children would wear various costumes to look terrifying in order to drive away the spirits.

Because of this, on the night of the 31st, children dressed as witches and ghosts, with candles lit in Jack-o'-lanterns made by hollowing out pumpkins, would visit nearby houses one by one, chanting "Trick or Treat."
In homes, people began making pumpkin sweets, and children would bring the sweets they received to hold Halloween parties.

The Jack-o'-lantern, a symbol of Halloween made by hollowing out a pumpkin,
Jack-o'-lanternwas originally made using a type of turnip called a 'rutabaga' used in Ireland, but it changed to a pumpkin in the process of being passed down to America, and now this pumpkin lantern is the symbol of Halloween.

Also, the symbol colors of Halloween are orange and black, and this color scheme fills the streets, further enhancing the Halloween atmosphere.

May everyone have a wonderful Halloween day🎃

Huh? Me? I'm at work! (Slacking off)
Of course, that's after I've properly finished my work (/・ω・)/

Thank you for reading this far.