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Halloween Costume Ideas for Married Couples



Halloween Costume for Couples




Costumes for couples should help spark your creativity whether the Halloween costumes are for a romantic couple, a parent and child, or siblings.

Halloween Pumpkin

While pumpkins are usually the symbol for Halloween, they can also be used at Thanksgiving time when you find pumpkin crafts for kids that pertain to Thanksgiving. Gourds, pumpkins, and squash are in plentiful supply after Halloween and the Pilgrims and Indians used pumpkins in their Thanksgiving feast, so why not find Thanksgiving pumpkin crafts for kids?

Halloween Costume 2011




Halloween Day

Halloween originated from the festival of Samhain (from the Old Irish language samain) that celebrated ancient Celtic people. The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes called the "Celtic New Year". Celtic people who embraced paganism hereditary festival use the opportunity to slaughter livestock and food hoarding in preparation for winter.

The nation's ancient Gael believes that the October 31, the limiting world of the dead and the living into the open. The dead endanger people living with the disease and damage crops. While celebrating the festival, Gael lit a bonfire to burn the bones of animals that they are hamstrung. Gael people wearing costumes and masks to pretend as evil spirits or seek peace with them.

For many people Halloween night actually considered creepy and Satanic worship, especially in Indonesia, which do not ngerayain Halloween, but the problem is what exactly? someone said that Halloween actually not more than the ancient Celtic festival of nations, or Feralia celebration by the Romans. Add a variety of cultural influences that exist, and we'll see what it was Halloween, the celebration is mixed between life, death and change.

In the context of the celebration, there are 5 things that we usually miss out on Halloween:

1. Halloween is a big day the second largest in America after Christmas.

Today begins with something that initially biasa2 wrote. Was first celebrated by only a few small communities, and is still closely associated with the harvest. Celebrations are colored with forecasts and games. Until the 19th century, then the influence of costumes and trick-or-treating forms began sweeping America. And in the early 20th century, this festival no longer contain religious motifs.

2 - Trick-or-treating for Halloween comes from begging

Probe for the difference only, that only very low, the other is Ok. Some groups oppose this practice and considers that it is nothing more than bad actions. Although no clear documentation on this, but similar practices ever undertaken by the poor people in the UK, with the name "Souling" where on November 1, they beg for food from door to door, and in exchange for food they will pray for the spirit of the family of the deceased.

3 - Flash lights in pumpkin Jack-o'-Lantern is from the devil.

According to legend, if you light a candle and put it in a pumpkin that has been in the form of grinning (Jack-O-Lantern), then you will actually make your home as a "gate" of hell. Stingy Jack, in one legend, said to have twice fooled the devil, and even according to the agreement, Satan will not take his life at the time of his death. Akirnya when Jack died, he did not feel at home in heaven and wanted to go to Hell, but according to the promise of Satan, Jack was rejected in hell. Therefore, he finally had to walk in darkness with only accompanied by lanterns made of turnips and filled with embers from the demons of hell had received

4. Jack O Lantern is made from turnip early

In abada 19, Irish immigrants brought many traditions to the "new country", and one of them is Jack o Lantern. Here was associated with a hollowed turnip to hold the light source, to commemorate the legend of Stingy Jack. But according to the Ulster American Folk Park in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, they have difficulty in finding a turnip, so it should look for what can be used as a lantern maker, and eventually is used most vegetables are easy to find: pumpkin!

5. Haloween is a celebration of new year Ancient Celts

For the ancient Celts, the celebration of new year falls on November 1, or in other words, the closing time of harvest and the start of winter, early spring "death." On the night before November 1, the Celts believed that the natural mortality and the survivors will be very blurred seingga spirits of the dead can come back to earth, thus creating many problems, such as plants to die, so the Celtic nation will face a tough winter . The existence of the spirit makes the Celtic priests, called Druids are able to forecast the severity of winter conditions, so that will guide people to face the rigors of winter.

For children in America, Halloween means the chance to wear Halloween costumes and get candy, while for adults the chance to party costumes. For retailers in America, Halloween ranks second behind Christmas as the celebration of the most profitable.

The history of Halloween masks and costumes before 1900 in America or elsewhere is still little known because of the limitations of primary sources. Mass-produced Halloween costumes have not seen in stores until the 1950s, although there was a Halloween mask first.

In 2005, the American candy manufacturers association reported 80% of adults plan on handing out candy to kids who come, while 93% of children want to go around from door to door neighbor's house on Halloween night.

City of Anoka in the state of Minnesota claims itself as "the capital of Halloween" and celebrate with a massive parade. City of Salem in Massachusetts is famous for its legend of a witch from Salem is usually visited by more tourists ahead of Halloween.

City of New York held a parade of the largest Halloween celebration in the United States called The Village Halloween Parade. Mask maker who pioneered Parade in Greenwich Village New York is now attracting the attention of 50 thousand costumed participants and watched by 4 million television viewers.

Dracula at White House

Obamas celebrate Halloween WASHINGTON - The White House turns spooky Halloween just days. President of the United States (U.S.) and First Lady Michelle Obama celebrating with a change of the White House into a place filled with ghosts. On Sunday, October 31 evening local time, children aged six to 14 years, along with children of U.S. military families are invited to celebrate Halloween with President ...

Creepy creatures at Halloween

Halloween or Hallowe'en is a tradition of celebration the night of October 31, and especially celebrated in the United States. This tradition comes from Ireland, and taken by the Irish who emigrated to North America. Children celebrated Halloween by wearing scary costumes and going from door to door asking neighbors or chocolate candy, saying "Trick or treat!" Speech is a kind of "threat" which means "Give us a (candy) or we jahili."

Here is a creepy creatures that exist on Halloween:

 Vampires (Dracula)




















They will suck your blood. Dracula appears in folklore for thousands of years, dating from the 18th century and 19th-century myths of Eastern Europe. Believed that a person is born with a disability or death of an irregular, after burial, rise again to terrorize the people. Dracula require human blood to stay alive. In the myth, Dracula can be killed by putting wooden pegs in the heart of the cross.





Ghost (Ghost)






















Ghosts, many believe, many others do not believe in its existence, many of which have already seen, some are never seen. That said, 50% of people believed the existence of ghosts, many kinds of ghosts, like pocong, kuntilanak, flat face of the devil, wewe Gombel, etc.. Even the film industry we are all filled with the theme of ghosts.


Witches (Witch)























Myth known as the characteristic black pointy hat and warty nose. In the past, witches are considered to have magical powers associated with the natural world. A hunt that reached its peak in mid-century European and American 17th-century. There are good witches, some evil witches, and even now the world is infatuated with the title wizards, where they were a good magician, like Harry Potter or charmed (3 sexy witches).

Genie




It literally means something that connotes a "hidden" or "invisible". In the Islamic and pre-Islamic Arab mythology, the jinn is one of the races and creatures that are not visible are created from fire. In the opinion of those who came before Islam came, Jin regarded as sacred beings, who must be worshiped and respected. The people at that time described it in the form of a statue of their god.

Werewolves (Werewolves)

These creatures will appear in the evenings, especially at full moon. Like magicians, they were hunted in medieval times and killed. In the myth, they are usually shaped like a man in the daytime, but at night will turn into a werewolf and begins looking for prey to meal.

 Zombie













zombies are individuals who have died, whether it's their souls sucked from their bodies or have been revived from the dead through black magic. Zombie myth comes from the voodoo religion of Haiti, where he still believes that people can fall into the blank space just like the walking dead that we see in the movie (without missing limbs and eating human flesh). An ethnobotanist investigating the claims in Haiti found a toxic drug that can really push the style zombies.

Gargoyles


















In the contemporary fiction, gargoyles are also often described as (typically) race with demonic features, generally horns, tail, and claws. They are said to be the keeper of the building where they are. These fictional gargoyles can generally use their wings to fly or glide, and is often described as a rock to hide, or are not able to turn into stone in one way or another.

Demons (evil spirits)














One of the all-encompassing term for an "evil spirit," demon can represent anything from evil ghost or an angel doll fell to the Devils. Like the notion of evil itself, they have ancient origins that appear in folklore and literature across the world.

Goblins














Famous fairy tales, petite and hairy, more to the mischievous nature of goblins rather than threatening. Legend tells of goblins hiding in the forest, exciting and sometimes abduct a human baby. Their own spawn. Unlike some other creatures mentioned here and perhaps because of their disconnect from religion, goblins never crossed the threshold of a real imaginary caused panic in the cities of the Middle Ages.

 Angel of executioners

Halloween

 The banner reads "Happy Halloween" which contains a call to celebrate Halloween in some corner of the city mounted in Jakarta. Halloween was already part of the culture of the metropolis. The Europeans, Americans and several countries in the world celebrate Halloween every year on October 31. In the Western world, the day believed to be a "victory over the ghost", is eagerly awaited. Lay people commonly call it a day of celebration and gathering rose ghosts or "ghost feast". Even in Ireland, Halloween has become a national holiday and is celebrated on a large scale.

The special feature of the celebration of Halloween is an attribute that is used seems very strong with the personification of satanic symbol. Costume all in black (dark), creepy masks of various types of ghosts, pumpkins and lanterns in the objects and bertipikal distinctive character to the world of demons. Places of entertainment so the party scene was transformed into a haunted Halloween. The atmosphere will be getting scarier by the sound mengalunnya various ghosts of music played....

A Special Rituals
The word "Halloween" comes from All Hallows Eve is meant to purify the night. The night before October 31, known as All Hallow's Evening, night all the saints (the latter known as Halloween). That night was the night before all saints day-a celebration as a warning to those who die as a martyr saint. One day later, ie November 1, defined as all saints day (All Saints Day) by Pope Grigorius in the year 835 AD, and November 2, be the day the spirits of the dead. On that day, among them also there are those who go to the cemetery or pray.

Many stories are told about the history of the emergence of the celebration of Halloween. Nation in the history of the church Druid, Halloween is positioned as special celebration for their ancestors belonging to the religious sect of Celtic priests (from the Celts) in Ireland. The Celts is a group of Aryans who first arrived from mainland Asia to settle in Europe. The fact is very clear that there are similarities between Druidisme and other religions in India. Religious sect led by Celtic Druids (the Piet) trusting belief in various gods of nature, ceremonies and practices.

They worship the god of the sun, especially on the date May 1, called Baltone (flame). Worship is also done on the Death Gods or the God of Death on October 31, called Samhain. Baltone festival held in summer, while the Samhain festival held in the winter. Both festivals are using human beings as its victims.

The Celts and Druids start the new year on November 1. October 31, the night before the new year, is believed to be Lord of Death gathered the souls condemned for evil that has taken possession of the animal. While good spirits reincarnated as a human being. That is why November 1 is often referred to as a day of the dead.

The Celts believed that on October 31, night, demons, witches, poltergeist (gobins), fairies, and spirits roam. The spirits of the departed haunt to enter and penetrate into the human body are still alive. Of course people will not possessed by the spirits haunting them. Therefore when the eve of October 31, the villagers put the fire burning in the house so that their bodies become cold and the spirits would not enter it.

In order for the spirit of getting away, they then wore a scary and around the village with the sounds of noisy sounds to scare off wandering spirits. So what happens to those who are obsessive by a disembodied spirit? He said that the Celts would burn those who possessed as a lesson to other spirits not to dare to penetrate into the human body.
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