Halloween or Night of Witches is a party is a holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the
Celtic festival of
Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints. It is largely a secular celebration, but some Christians and pagans carried
versions of the Irish immigrantstradition to North America during
Ireland's Great Famine of 1846.[4] The day is
often associated with the colors orange and black, and is strongly associated
with symbols such as the jack-o'-lantern.
 Halloween activities include
trick-or-treating,
ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted
attractions, carving jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories, and watching
horror movies. Have expressed strong feelings
about its religious overtones. There was celebrated in the Anglo-Saxon countries, principally in Canada, The
United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom. But nowadays it is celebrated in
almost all the western countries by major or minor presence.
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