Festivals of various nature from social to religious ones are meant for creating charm in our lives which we celebrate in the entire year on regular intervals. We always look for some of the best festivities to make a difference in our lives. Most of the festivals are an outcome of some religious faith, social norms and or portrayal of regional flavour. Such festivals keep us engaged entire year due to their wonderful chasm. The followers of such trends and the admirers too find it an opportunity to express festivity in organizing these festivals. They take all the pains and hardly do any compromise in organizing them.
Today’s cultural megalomania is enriched with the superb and outstanding sobriquets of ancient religious faiths which no more exist but their rituals are still important part of our festivals. These beliefs and traditional values are still with us. Such traditions are internationally recognized as their believers are in abundant number. One such tradition is the concept of an existence of another world and a passageway called spirit plane which the dead souls use as a medium of transportation. The belief has much impact in the human society. It has become universal and is practiced by all and sundry.
Celebrated on October 31 Halloween was incepted in Ireland in the ancient era. The belief goes on that this unique festival has its roots from the Christian's All Saints Day. Its wondrous impact is in its scary practices. In the Irish tradition, this festival is called Samhain (or Syawn). It is significant due to the timing when harvesting season concludes. Having been derived from a typical theme, celebration of Halloween is actually a protective shield from evil spirits which invade peace of living beings on this special day at a time when the layer between dead and alive become thin and evil spirits try to enter in the human world for creating devastation. Although it is celebrated in much fun no authenticity of its belief is searched by now.
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