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The story behind Halloween

Halloween, October 31, is the eve of All Saints' Day: its name is a contraction of All Hallows' Eve. Many of its customs reach back further, to Samhain, the Celtic festival at the end of the harvest when the boundary between the living and the dead was believed to grow thin.

Irish and Scottish immigrants carried the traditions to North America, where turnip lanterns became carved pumpkins and 'souling' became trick-or-treating. From the United States it spread worldwide in the late 20th century. It is not a public holiday anywhere, but it is one of the most counted-down nights of the year.