By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! The nights are getting darker, London is being overrun with massive spiders , and your Big Supermarket has started flogging those cute little mini pumpkins again.
You know what that means: Sunday October 31 is right around the corner. Don your vampire fangs, get that fake blood a-flowing and head to one of these spooktastic tours, screenings, dinners, talks or creepy happenings across London this Halloween.
London is an objectively scary place. Pints now cost more than six pounds. Time Out London. Support us Subscribe. The History behind Halloween-. Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity, life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts.
Over time, Halloween evolved into a secular, community-based event characterized by child-friendly activities such as trick-or-treating. In a number of countries around the world, as the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, people continue to usher in the winter season with gatherings, costumes and sweet treats. Development of artifacts and symbols associated with Halloween formed over time.
For instance, the carving of jack-o'-lanterns springs from the souling custom of carving turnips into lanterns as a way of remembering the souls held in purgatory. The turnip has traditionally been used in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween, but immigrants to North America used the native pumpkin, which are both readily available and much larger — making them easier to carve than turnips.
The American tradition of carving pumpkins is recorded in and was originally associated with harvest time in general, not becoming specifically associated with Halloween until the mid-to-late 19th century. Trick-or-treating-The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays dates back to the Middle Ages and includes Christmas wassailing. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of souling, when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas November 1 , receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls' Day November 2.
It originated in Ireland and Britain, although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy. In Scotland and Ireland, Guising — children disguised in costume going from door to door for food or coins — is a traditional Halloween custom, and is recorded in Scotland at Halloween in where masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit and money.
The practice of Guising at Halloween in North America is first recorded in , where a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario reported children going "guising" around the neighborhood. Autumn Activities-. Visit the farm store that offers plenty of treats including farm fresh ice cream, snacks and sandwiches.
Pick-your-own peaches also available the first, two weeks in September. Haunted hill is Rhode Island's premier halloween attraction. Set deep in the woods of Cumberland, you and your group will be sent through some of the scariest scenes your mind can't even imagine. Connecticut Pumpkin Patches. Chillicothe - p. Clinton Township - p. Columbus - p.
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