When: 31st, Oct.
Where: Foreign countries (At Halloween, yards, public spaces, and some houses may be decorated with traditionally macabre <horrible> symbols including witches, skeletons, ghosts, cobwebs, and headstones <gravestone, a stone on a grave with the name of a dead person written on it)
Who: Western Christians and non-Christians around the world
Why: originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals
How: Trick-or-Treating, costume parties, making jack-o-lanterns, lighting bonfires, divination, apple bobbing (a game played with putting apples in a large basin full of water), visiting haunted attractions
Why Halloween is related to horrible costumes?
Elements of the autumn season such as pumpkins, corn husks and scarecrows are also prevalent. Homes are often decorated with these types of symbols around Halloween. Halloween imagery includes themes of death, evil, and mythical monsters. Black, orange, and sometimes purple are Halloween's traditional colors.
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