because a long time ago Halloween was called all hallows eve. All meaning all hallows meaning souls and eve meaning night before. As you know the souls the people way back when were talking about the dead souls. So you get all hallows eve which later was said faster and became Halloween. Does that help you at all?
Zombies are the creatures that return from the dead.
Samhain is another word for Halloween, pronounced 'Sow-in'. Halloween is also knows as All Hallow's Eve, the Feast of the Dead and the Day of the Dead.
Halloween is a holiday about the evil creatures comingout so the monster represent those creatures.
All the creatures of the Underworld, originally. Now you can be anything for Halloween - a monster, a celebrity...Even a video game character.
A Lycanthrope is a werewolf. As Halloween is the festival of monsters and other scary creatures, Werewolves (Lycanthropes) are also associated with Halloween.
Halloween honor the dead
on halloween the day of te dead is celebrated
Halloween is celebrated with sadness. Dia de los muertos is celebrated with joy and happiness.
Back then, Halloween was known as All Hallow's Eve, the night when all evil creatures came out.
Halloween and Day of the Dead both have to do with the spirits of the dead, though Halloween has more to do with warding off evil spirits and Day of the Dead is focused more on welcoming the spirits of family ancestors back into the household, and respecting the dead.
In Ireland, a long, long time ago, on October 31, they would think demons and ghosts and such would be raised from hell and walk the earth. They also thought that the ghosts would harm us, which created the costume part of halloween. They thought these were disguises that we are also hell risen creatures. I hope that answers your question!
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