Detailed Halloween Day Event History 2023

In this post “Halloween Day Event History 2023, we will try to explain all there is to this special event, that is the Halloween history, meaning, costumes, kids’ movies, songs, and the Halloween poems and games. Halloween is just a short distance from Christmas which comes to us on the 31st of October.

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Halloween Meaning

The word Halloween is derived from ‘All Hallows Eve’, this eve is the evening before the Christian feast of all Hallows.

Halloween Date

It is celebrated on the 31st of October, mostly in the western world. So according to this Halloween day, 2023 will be Saturday, October 31, 2023.

Halloween History

The Irish brought their Halloween-like traditions to the US in 1840. The commercialized Halloween that we know today didn’t start in the Western world until 1921. Mass production of Halloween costumes didn’t start until the 1950s, until then Halloween costumes were homemade and just plain and creepy.

More chocolates and sweets are sold on October 28th than any other day of the year. It is very much associated with scary costumes, horror movie nights, and things that are wonderfully creepy.

Halloween Decorations

People in the USA carve pumpkins into scary jock-o’-lanterns to decorate their houses to look as creepy as possible and wear elaborate costumes to celebrate this holiday, these aspects of Halloween according to some have their roots in various Celtic and European myths, legends, and cultural traditions. Popular horror films have also influenced the cultural traditions that surround Halloween.

Halloween Costumes

Sometimes questions may arise that, Why do we dress up for Halloween in the first place? or may Why is Halloween celebrated?
During the old festival of Samhain, spirits were believed to cross over to the world of the living for this one night. So the people got scared, and they started to wear handmade masks and odd clothing in an attempt to disguise themselves from the spirits so any evil spirits wouldn’t harm them.

And this trend went on to be Halloween Day and the monster movies of the early 20th century are significant contributors to the look and feel of modern Halloween celebrations in the USA.

Halloween Games and Parties

There are many Halloween games played on the day of Halloween, where young or old everyone is involved in the games. But children have their own games and playful acts while adults have their own games. So it’s a time for partying and enjoying with friends and strangers as well.

Trick or Treating

Trick or treating is a tradition carried out across most of the US, but the ritual of dressing up and knocking on strangers’ doors in exchange for sweets differs greatly in some parts of the world. Kids would go door-to-door, singing songs, disguised as their favorite characters asking for candies and goodies.

One-quarter of all US candy is purchased in one year on the day or a few days before Halloween. As the tradition moves on, if the children don’t get the candy, they will give the person answering the door a trick instead. Some families and social groups set up elaborate haunted houses for people to go through for free or for a donation. So Trick or Treat is known to be the official Halloween game amongst the children.

Adults on the other hand have their own types of Halloween games that are played at the Halloween parties.

Halloween Parties

Adults have their own fun night dressed up as various creepy characters by putting up a Halloween party. They decorate the place with scary decorations both from inside and outside. They invite their friends by giving them invitation spooky cards. Spooky music is played and horror skits are performed.

Various games like bobbing for apples, fortune-telling, Ouija boards, or smashing jack-o’-lanterns all of which have deep roots in Halloween history are played. Apples and pumpkins are mostly used in the parties because these both have been associated with fertility and fortune telling in many traditions mostly the apple.

Halloween Vocabulary

To trick ————————–	To make fun or to prank someone.
Treat——————————	Anything sweet or nice.
Trick-or-treat——————	The tradition of Halloween in which children go from door to door to ask for candy
Jack-o-lantern—————–	A pumpkin carved during Halloween to give it a spooky face and light a candle or fairy lights inside it
To hollow out——————	To make something empty
To carve————————	To shape something by cutting it
Costume————————	Creepy, something related to ghosts or anything scary
Spirit—————————–	A ghost or a soul of a living being
Creepy, something related to ghosts or anything scary	A spirit or essence of someone
Spooky—————————	Creepy, something related to ghost or anything scary

Best Halloween Cartoons, Movies, And Songs

Halloween Cartoon For Kids

The best Halloween cartoons for children to watch this coming Halloween. All these cartoons will remind you about your childhood for sure, as we grew while watching these cartoons.

Bugs Bunny’s Howl-oween Special
Casper’s Halloween Special
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Fat Albert’s Halloween Special
The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone
Scared Shrekless
Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular
Winnie the Pooh – Boo to You Too

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Halloween Movies To Watch

The Halloween movie list to watch for the kids and adults as well.

Halloween
Frankenstein
Goosebumps
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
Hotel Transylvania
Night of the Creeps
The Monster Squad
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Addams Family
Dracula

Halloween Songs

Some of the best Halloween songs of all time are selected especially for you to watch and listen to.

Halloween Poems

We know that you like the Halloween poem, and you are in search of some, here are a few written for you, share them as a Halloween joke to your friends and strangers.

How have you been,

It’s Halloween,

Come on let’s fly,

The night is all dry,

We still have time,

Booing is not a crime,

Pumpkins are all out,

Big eyes and carved mouth,

I think it’s all south,

I hear the far Crowth,

The parties and the crowd,

Making it all loud,

I want to join them too,

it’s time to make a Boo,

I will get dressed,

The most ugly way I can,

To frighten the world around,

But there sure will be a crown,

You do look like a clown,

The Batman is heading your town,

Halloween Greeting Cards

Beautiful Halloween pictures and images are made for you to greet your friends and family members on any of the social media sites you use and would like to wish them this Halloween 2023.