The Reason We Have To Wear Costumes On Halloween

The Reason Why We Have to Wear Costumes on Halloween
By Lindsay Lee

Knock knock. When you open the door, you’ll see a bunch of kids in costumes with a big basket and saying, “Trick or treat!” Then you will give them a handful amount of sweets and see them moving to the next house to repeat the same thing.

On October 31^st, people, especially young children, celebrate “Halloween” by wearing special costumes. They usually disguise as scary characters such as a witch, a vampire, the Grim Reaper, a ghost, and Frankenstein. However, they also wear costumes of famous characters like the Smurfs, Shrek, Gollum, Batman, Joker, and Jack Sparrow the Great Pirate. Halloween is one of the most exciting days of the year for children because it is one of the few chances to obtain bags full of candy and chocolate.

Then where has this creepy holiday come from? Its origin traces back thousands of years, from the festival of the Celtics called “Samhain.” The Celtics lived where now Great Britain and Northern France are located. The Celtics worshiped nature and many gods, with the sun god as their favorite. Their year began on November 1^st, so the Celtics believed that all the dead people were called together with the bad spirits by making their houses cold and disguising as ghosts. However, the influence of Christianity spread as the Romans conquered the Celtics, and as Samhain was changed into “All Hallow Day,” so did the Eve of their New Year into “All Hallows’ Eve” by the Roman Catholic Church.

Since then “All Hallows’ Eve” became a big holiday in America as the Puritans moved from Europe, and its name has finally become “Halloween” today. Though Koreans don’t celebrate this holiday as much as Americans or Europeans do, there is an interesting piece of information which could make Daewon students get excited on Halloween. According to some of the sunbaes, there always have been a few students who appear at school with Halloween costumes on. So just in case that happens this October 31^st, you’d better prepare some sweets for those brave Halloween-celebraters!