Culture: Halloween

Photo and cardboard skeleton by Rob.

As today is Halloween I thought it fitting to do a quick blog about the origins of Halloween. Very briefly, the idea of Halloween is to scare away evil spirits that might come at this time of year to eat the food we have kept for winter!

今日はハローウィン。ハローウィンって一体どこから来たのかご存知ですか？この時期昔は冬に備えて食べ物を保存しはじめます。その大切な食べ物を取っていく悪い霊たちを怖がらす為に始まった習慣です。

Before Christianity came to Europe people believed that a door opened between the spirit world and our world at this time of year, and that bad spirits came and destroyed our precious crops. To stop this from happening the people decided to look scary, so the spirits would go back to their world. Christians believe in one God, so they did not like this idea, and tried unsuccessfully to stop it several times.

Yes, this is Rob!

Now that's scary!　こわっ！