Halloween At Lightcliffe
Halloween, also known as All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve, is celebrated every year on the 31st of October by many people all over the world. The modern-day Halloween is said to have originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, held around the 1st of November, the date that marked the transition from autumn to winter. It was at this time of year that people believed the boundary between the worlds of living and dead became blurred and was when the souls of the dead were said to revisit their homes…..all sounds a bit scary!
The idea of trick-or-treating is also related to the ghosts of the dead in pagan, and even Catholic, history. As America welcomed the large number of immigrants in the second half of the nineteenth century, with them came their Halloween traditions. The English and Irish are credited with early trick-or-treating, and brought with them the custom of dressing up, and travelling door-to-door to ask for food.
Among the Irish, who prompted the popularisation of Halloween in America, the legend of “Irish Jack” explains the use of pumpkins in order to symbolize “jack-o’-lantern”.
Across Britain, people used turnips, or sometimes beetroot or potatoes, to make their own versions of these lanterns – carving scary faces into them and placing them near doorways or windows to frighten away Jack and other wandering evil spirits.
Today we celebrate Halloween as a festival full of excitement and fun for kids as they are involved in various activities such as making Halloween costumes, trick-or-treating, telling scary Halloween stories and eating sweets. And not wanting to miss out on the fun we are offering any customer who comes to test drive a car on the 30th or the 31st of this month a free goodie bag for the big night.
So, getting to drive a fabulous new Skoda on a test drive and walking away with a fab “trick or treat” goodie bag is surely a win win?
But dare you come?