The history of a fun and spooky tradition

People have been dressing up for Halloween for more than 2,000 years.

Every October, people wear costumes—from silly to spine-tingling—to celebrate Halloween. Step back in time to see how this creative custom began. Earliest Halloween costumes The origins of Halloween go back about 2,000 years to the Celts, a collection of tribes across Europe. They celebrated a festival called Samhain (pronounced SOW-in) on October 31, marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. The Celts believed that the barrier between the living and the dead overlapped on Samhain, and they dressed as ghosts and witches to keep away spirits. In the 11th century, Christians adopted the holiday and named it All Hallows’ Eve. Costumes catch on in the US In the 1840s, as Europeans immigrated to the US, they brought the All Hallows’ Eve costume tradition with them.…

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