A fork of Rural Dictionary
Pagen holiday for celebration of nature and spirits/energy that Catholic's adapted and renamed "Eve of All Saint's Day" or "Hallowed Eve" (becoming "Halloween"). On this day - October 31st - people are encouraged to dress up and "trick ot treat" to fool the spirits that roam the earth.
Halloween is my favorite holiday.
I'm going to dress-up as a cat or Madonna for Halloween.
Are you going to the Halloween party at Karen's house?
1. A celebration in which little kids dress up and get stuff.
2. A series of movies where anyone who has sex dies.
1. The little kids happily celebrated Halloween.
2. Me and my boyfriend were nervous about having sex after seeing Halloween.
Halloween is the one day of the year were people dress up in their ridiculous costumes and run from house to house banging on people’s doors and stealing their candy.
Halloween is my favorite holiday!
Trick-or-Treat!
It's when you dress up in either cheap, store-bought costumes or elaborate, self-made ones, watch Rocky Horror Picture Show, get your friends to do the Time Warp, and go on a severe candy binge. Until someone spoils your fun by reminding you that it's April.
Halloween is when you're supposed to beat up little kids dressed-up as Sponge Bob Square Pants.
One of the greatest holidays of all time. Children don disguises and travel to the houses of strangers to receive sugary goods by reciting the ancient enchantment "Trick or treat." Also an excellent night for teenage mishief.
Halloween is a night of free candy. How can you go wrong?
All Hallow's Eve, the evening of October 31st.
Halloween was Christianity`s failed attempt at eradicating paganism in the 9th Century.
Originally, the pagans dedicated the period of late October to early November as a time for honoring their ancestors. Then along came the Christians, who declared November 1st to be All Saints Day and forced the pagans to honor that day instead. The pagans simply celebrated their ancient traditions in secret on the evening before November 1st.
When the Medieval Era ended, and the age of Protestantism began, the pagan tradition was celebrated more openly, eventually becoming an evening holiday in the Western Hemisphere.
During Halloween, the children, dressed up in their favorite costumes, go door-to-door throughout the neighborhood, asking for candy or snacks.