SCARY TRICK OR FREE DOWNLOAD TREAT?:Click a House to get Your Scary Trick or a Free Download Treat!
Knock on the Door or Run Away Scared?
Why It's Called "Halloween"The term Halloween (and its alternative rendering Hallowe'en) is shortened from All-hallow-evening, as it is the eve of "All Hallows' Day" , which is now also known as All Saints' Day . It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 (which had itself been the date of a pagan holiday, the Feast of the Lemures) to November 1.
In the ninth century, the Church measured the
day as starting at sunset, in accordance ...
Halloween in United States and CanadaHalloween did not become a holiday in the United States until the 19th century, where lingering Puritan tradition restricted the observance of many holidays. American almanacs of the late 18th and early 19th centuries do not include Halloween in their lists of holidays. The transatlantic migration of nearly two million Irish following the Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849) finally brought the holiday to the United States .
Scottish emigration, primarily to Canada
before 1870 and to the United States ...
Erebus, Detroit, MichiganErebus, the 4 story Haunted House is located in Pontiac, Michigan and was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Largest Walk-Through Haunted Attraction in 2005
{youtube}mg-Rzi0qSzE{/youtube}
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|