Halloween Dark Origins

Jon kaneko james takes a special look at the origins of halloween the night the dead come back to haunt the living.

Halloween dark origins. The history of some of your fave halloween traditions are creepy af 1. Samhain is the foundation of halloween s dark history from which the custom of wearing masks and asking for candies came to life. Halloween is said to be satan s birthday. Long before jesus christ ever walked the streets of jerusalem druids in britain ireland scotland france and germany observedthe end of summer by making sacrifices to sambain.

Supernatural energy informs fortune tellers. Jack o lanterns ward off evil spirits. The name itself halloween comes from hallowtide also sometimes called hallowmass encompassing the festivals of all souls on the 31st of october and all saints on the 1st of november. Old celtic tribes are the ones who invented halloween tradition as a way to observe the new year and mark the transition from summer to winter.

There is no single halloween. Scottish poet robert burns helped to make the word more popular with his poem called halloween. According to various sources it s a pagan and satanic holiday used for human and animal sacrifice in order to conjure up demons and perform spells. If you stop and think about it craving a face on a gourd putting.

The word itself seems to be a portmanteau of the word hallow which originally meant saint. The dark origins of halloween the night the dead haunts the living.