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By Meaghan Godinho
Each holiday that we celebrate always has a story that has changed over the years, from
the story of St. Nick to the Easter Bunny. There are so many different versions of these stories
that they have all been made into one and have become the stories we know today. So many
stories have been revised over the years that no one can truly know where each began unless you
go to the true source. There are many articles that you will see that have stories about the origins
of Halloween and what has happened in the years prior.
Every year Halloween is marked on the 31st of October. There have been many debates
about the origins of Halloween. Many argued that the celebration originated partly in
Christianity, mainly All Saints Day, the feast day that honours all saints of the church. The
reason for this thinking is because the word Halloween derives from the word hallows, which
means "to make holy or sacred, to sanctify or consecrate, to venerate", and All Hallows Eve is
the evening before All Saints Day, or All Hallows Day. With this in mind they didn't think to
consider any other religion that had celebration around this time. Another story that we all know
today is that we dress up in different costumes so that the supernatural (ie. ghosts, werewolves,
vampires) think we are one of them and don’t attack us. Canada's first record of ever dressing up
was in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1898. All of this adds up to give us some amazing
history lessons about the stories that we may tell the next generation.
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