The History Of Halloween - Halloween Traditions Explained
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- Today we look at the history of Halloween and examine how it's changed over the years.
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Here's the story of Stingy Jack if you're wondering. Keep in mind this is mythology though so this story has many versions, this is simply the one I've heard.
Stingy Jack had a reputation of being a deceitful man with a tendency of manipulation. His reputation was so widespread that the Devil had heard of him and so he went to see if Jack lived up to his reputation. Typical of Jack, he was drunk and stumbling along a cobblestone path when he met the Devil, and he knew his time had come. Jack asked for ale before he went to hell and the Devil saw no reason to decline his request so they went to the local pub. So after drinking his fill in the pub he asked the Devil to settle the tab and he convinced the Devil to turn into a silver coin which impressed the Devil. When the Devil turned into a coin, Jack put him in his pocket which had a crucifix in it which prevented the Devil from escaping. Jack gave the Devil a choice, to stay a coin forever, or to spare Jack 10 more years, and the Devil was forced to agree. 10 years later on the same date Jack tricked the Devil he came back for Jack's soul. Jack told the Devil that he was hungry and wished only to fill his belly before he was sent to hell. The Devil agreed and climbed a nearby tree for apples as Jack surrounded the base with crucifixes, trapping the Devil on the tree. Jack asked that his soul would never be sent to hell and the Devil was once again forced to agree. When Jack finally died and prepared to enter heaven he was denied entry by God, who told him he had lived a life full of sin and he could never enter. Jack then journeyed to hell and was once again denied entry as the Devil, grinning, reminded Jack of the deal they made. Stingy Jack, the man who tricked the Devil twice, was now forced to walk the realm between worlds with only an ember inside a turnip to light his way.
I threw an apple peel on the floor and it tells the future of me losing money in the form of a policeman giving a fine.
HOW COME THIS DOESN'T HAVE A LOT OF SUBS?!!😲
And nice one mentioning the Harley Quinn craze. When I was still a senior in high school, I saw at least 20 girls dressed as Harley Quinn..(I dressed as Ruby Rose from RWBY btw)
Haha I mean why be creative when you can just join the army of Harley Quinns right?
At least you have good tastes.
Lol I was Harley Quinn Halloween of 2015
RWBY?
@@MsXizan lol in 2015 I was a ninja... and 2014... and 2016. In 2017 I was Captain America.
Favorite holiday forever! Im in a Halloween group and we are counting down the days til the next!!!
I've never heard the tale of Stingy Jack before. Cool story.
This is my most favorite Holiday of the year so many activities to be done 💗💗💗💗
I must have watched 20 videos on the Origins of this Great day but have never had it explained in such Detail in so short and to the point story, thanks!
It's funny hw stories n beliefs change drastically overtime... love ur channel n voice n I subscribed...hihihi
I grew up with Halloween, but even as a kid, I sensed there was more to it than simply the fun of dressing up in costumes and gathering candy, as much as I loved those things (what kid doesn't?). Now as a Pagan, it's very important to me that people understand the traditions behind this festival and that it has nothing to do with Devil worship. Thank you for mentioning Samhain in your video. Blessed be.
TheaterRaven I couldn’t of said it better myself👌🏼😉💯 #sköl
TheaterRaven I hope he does Ostra (Easter), Mabon, Beltane, Yule(Christmas) & all the rest of the original pagan holidays predating Christianity 🤞🏼🤞🏼
BLESSED BE WITH YOU MY SISTER'S & BROTHER'S 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑
@@soflovixen There's nothing new under the sun woman.
All these "holidays" (holy (my ass) days) originated in Babylon and Egypt. Look at Washington DC from a bird point of view mollusks and a pentagram. Homages to the sun god Ra or Jesus or Zeus or Azazel or Marduk whatever you wanna call him. He is the baphomet.
I got a friend who is big time Pagan. I always give her a hard time about worshiping the devil. But I think their is lots of cool Pagan stuff. Halloween. The dumb supper. Christmas and Easter. My favorite holidays are all very Pagan in their roots. I even came up with my own sort of Summer festival. Celebrate it every year. I love Easter candy. About 7 years ago. I somehow declared that biting the head of off a choclate bunny made it summer. Which has has lead to many a cold say in my shorts in early march when I finally get my hands on a bunny. I love the pagans mythology. It's so rich and cool. To this day. I'm still trying to figure out a intresting reason why that would cause it to be summer. To add to the fun belief.
My fav holiday 🍂🍂
Same
I was born October 31, 1966 where halloween started. Dublin Ireland. Besides being my birthday it is also my favorite holiday.
In United States Georgia Halloween is ruined because Trick or Treating is done in the day time rather than at night.
My favorite holiday!
very good & short description. Good work.
It's original British New Year. AKA Celtic New Year.... now highjaked!
Happy Hallowe'en from Great Britain.
(Fri 30 Oct 2020 2115)
You can make it a fun event leave evil. Horror out of it
I just found your channel and I must say that I LOVE it. Keep it up, you're doing a great work!
i like this video the art is very nice and the narration is just top rate, i am going to subscribe.
Very interesting,love this.
I love hearing the story of stingy jack
I didn't know jack-o'-lanterns we're used to scare away evil spirits a long time ago.😈😈😈😈😃
My wife and I bake soul cakes every year. Keepin it old school yo.
Legend Of Christmas
Thank you, nicely explained about Halloween, 👌👌👍👍👍👍
I didnt know Halloween had so much history behind it! Love your channel!
Neither did I until, I looked into it a little more
Happy Halloween 2020 ❤
Day of the Dead deserve a video maybe? Different origins and reasons.. All comes down to around the world it is believed that is the time when the veil between living and the Dead is the thinnest. Connection around the world. Like dragons. 😉
Rhee Venjenz 🤞🏼🤞🏼
Can you do a video on Día de Muertos? I'm Mexican American and I would love to hear the history about it. It's a very important holiday in Latin America as we welcome back the spirits of long gone family.
My Spanish Is a bit rusty, doesn't that mean day of the the dead?
@@nooneinparticular9219 That is indeed what it means.
@@megamage911 thank you
Just get the Disney movie Coco
Watch Coco
good one . thanks .
Halloween was brought to this country by the Irish.
That's literally what he said.
It was brought by earlier settlers 🤷🏻 so it was basically early settlers. It was a pagan holiday.
@@sutty8526 reject monotheism accept paganism
I was reading that the origins of Halloween can be seen like the 3 pronged trident that Halloween includes. The first origin being the Celtic pagan one, the second origin being the Christian dogmatic one, and the third origin being the American one.
Your voice is so soothing,
Halloween is my most favorite Holiday of the year I dont know why but I was really drawn to it like If the Halloween is nesr i have to prepare to decorate our house i would often buy plastic pumpkin and put a Little light in the inside so that it would glow in the dark 🤭🌖👻👻👻👻
Well done sir, well done.!!!
Karen moms want Halloween trick or treating during the middle of the day! Man, seems like Halloween in the 90s was way cooler. Terrifying decorations, seemed like everyone would dress up even the adults, you would get a trick instead of a treat in most houses. It would go on late into the night. Even the candy is dull now.
i remember walking until 1 am getting candy and seeing so many crazy decorations, now it seems nobody participates
thank you for this video! this is great for English teachers. I'm definitely using it with my students.
Fabulous video which explains halloween very well.....well done
Loved it
This is my son' favorite holiday,especially the character Jack Skellington.
I love the scenes from “Trick r Treat” we watch it on every Samhain eve👌🏼
I'm a hungaryan man, so I don't celebrating halloween, but I intrested how look like the Halloween, or what was Halloween's history
Thanks for the video
(Sorry for the mistakes, my Englis isn't perfect.)
🎃🎃👻
Merry Hellowin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All Hallows Eve is a sacred time for Wiccan's 😊
U have the irish to thank fo that
You have the bananas to thank for that helloween
I love Halloween for the same reason you do-- everyone recognizes the spooky dark side of life for one very fun night. For one month, it's actually normal to put skeletons on your front lawn!
We decorate after Thanksgiving here in Canada
Nyx Shadowhawk Yess 🎃🍂🍁🖤🧡💜💚❤️👻☠️💀🕸🕷🧛♀️
LoL, it was also Traditional for farmer's to fill shotgun shells with rocksalt and sprinkle the backsides of teenaged tricksters caught on their farm's after dark!
That's not traditional. It's fun.
Thank you😉
nice video
Samhain!
I love Halloween!
Halloween is every day in my eyes.
I love Halloween it's my favorite holiday.
Gyasi Balonfentse Yess 🎃🍁🍂🖤🧡💜💚❤️👻☠️💀🕸🕷🧛♀️
I love Halloween because of what it symbolizes
dude, this is cool
I love Halloween .
Well, Halloween use to be like that -- now its dying, like most of the other holidays.
Because of uptight idiots who call themselves "Christians."
@@MsXizan You are so right. They stole our holidays, and now they are killing them.
Done by Christian dogma.
Blame places like Belleville, Il. which have BANNED anyone over the age of 12 from Trick or Treating, Jared. It's been that way here since at least 2010.
Angela Roquemore Oh pleaseeee Christianity is dying itself and most of the traditions of Halloween are of Christian origin! Even this video mentioned that.
I love Halloween because I am born on Oct 31
I’ll bet your birthday parties are super fun
Please cancel
Iam born on 11 October
I would like you to cover pontianak or kuntilanak in Asean countries
anyone know what i should look up to find the image at 1:43
Unfortunately, some places, like my town; Belleville, Illinois, have banned everyone over the age of 12 from asking for candy either on Halloween or at the town party which is on the last Friday BEFORE Halloween. This is a clear violation of the civil rights of those 13 and older who are still young enough at heart to enjoy dressing up and asking for candy!
I can't tell if you're being serious or satirical.
Substituting of turnips for pumpkins was also because it's easier to carve pumpkins.
I would so love a video about what led up to the Christian crusades & the religions that predate Christianity 🤞🏼🤞🏼 like how Ostra became Easter how Yule became Christmas etc etc basically how Christianity effected paganism (I know it’s an umbrella term so maybe focus on Astru or Norse paganism plz🤞🏼🤞🏼)
can i use this video for my presentation?
Halloween is my favorite holiday, too! I'm an atheist and not really superstitious but one day a year it's cool to remember the lore and beliefs of the past.
Do a video on the durgdou
I love Halloween
Even in the age where science has discovered so much. where religion, faith, mythology, and the occult are falling out of favor.... I still find the occult, the idea of ghost, and traditional beliefs and rituals to be so fascinating.... the way our minds run wild when we don't know about the world or try to fill in the shadows is so fascinating.
Happy Halloween have a scary day 🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👹👹👹
Love this holiday, love this month.
I read that food was left out so that any possible evil spirits would be drawn to that rather than entering a persons house, but hungry children would take it instead and it evolved into trick or treat. Is there any element of truth into this version?
In Halloween, you can throw toilet paper at your neighbors’ trees just to turn them into mummies, use shaving cream to draw monsters on walls, and throw eggs at people as a surprise attack.
I love halloween.
We saw this in our English class today.
I'm
old and this will give me nightmares
What movie(s) are those video clips from?
werewolf And Vampire have some idea on Halloween maybe this channel should talk about other Halloween related it idea Vampire Halloween Traditions Jack O Lantern Ghost and Dead person this video information is great
Could you do some more videos about the kelts??
It's actually Celts.
Will we be getting any more Celtic mythology stuff?
Yep my Patreon voted video this week is a Celtic Deity, I won't spoil which one but it's coming.
"When the grim doors creak and the tombstones quake"
Too bad my country doesnt celebrate halloween 😕
Some Random Weaboo same ... I'm from South Africa :(
This Halloween imma be the zodiac killer. Either that... Or OJ Simpson. 🤣
Thanks for the explanation, you should do Easter 🐣
When I was small I was always scared of halloween because my religion said it was front the devil... I always had nightmares around Halloween about scary things and it was only last year that I went rick or treating, before my mom changed religion we would celebrate but i was like a year old so I didn’t remember
So last year was like, the first time I ever went trick or treating in about a decade... only last year I stopped having those night mares until my parents would tell me, when I was 18 and a adult that I could choose my own religion, as long as I was underage I had to follow my parents, but I’m very stubborn and I didn’t listen so I dressed up anyways and went trick or treating
Thanks so much for the information
I've read somewhere that during Samhain when the fomorians ruled the Tuatha de Dannan and the Fir Bolg on and off they would tax 2/3rds of their money, 2/3rds of their agriculture and 2/3rds of their children. As many know Fomorians we're monsterous, scary looking beings in most cases, and when the veil was thinnest during Samhain they Fomorians would come to take the taxes, and the children, so they would dress up their young in terrifying costumes so that they would blend in with the Fomorians for one night of the year, and they could keep their children. Once the child grew up, they were no longer required to wear the costumes annually as they would not be taken for they were too old.
It was a cool tale i heard somewhere, I think Brehan Law Academy told it, but I'm not certain. It's a cool thought on it that I just thought I'd share 😄
@Garland Thompson
That’s fascinating! Thanks for sharing.
My favorite Holiday is Halloween, and I am part Irish. Thank you.
What movie is that scene on 3:40?
THE GUEST
Halloween and November 1st The Day of the Dead is in remembrance of the great flood. When else in history has so many people perished at one time in one event? It is now something far different. Blessings to you
Whats this man of atlantan? 3:57
I think he may have said the name of the festival name wrong. I’m from Ireland
least he didnt say sam hane
Phonetically it's sow --ann
In the Southern Hemisphere, October 31 and November 1 mark the celebration of Beltane.
In the Southern Hemisphere thus make Halloween on April 30.
Thus November 1 in the Southern Hemisphere's November Day instead of May Day, while May 1's All Saints' Day.
As for me, I rather like Christmas best!
I'm from Argentina where Halloween is not a tradition at all. But since some years ago, people, mainly kids, celebrate it little by little every year. What's more, I teach its origins at school where I work so as children and families know its real origin. I've always decorated my house since my childhood and I love to prepare some special food for that night. Then we mix it up with the Dia de Muertos celebration typical from Mexico. That way we have a three-day celebration.
Did the Irish immigrants in Argentina do anything similar?
@@anthonyjat1964 mmm, no... Nowadays, many people following celtic culture have special celebrations where music and food are always welcomed. The Irish immigrants here mainly settled in the south of Argentina (Patagonia) and opened tea houses there. Many Irish bars and pubs can be found in big cities but, as it happens with every celebration here in my country, they offer foods and drinks for that special date.
@@Sebaconarroba2 that's pretty interesting, I'm from the U.S. and my mom is Mexican mostly Spanish and Catalan descent and my Dad is mostly English and Irish so I love cultures.
@@anthonyjat1964 Wow!!! What a mixture of cultures... I also love cultures and their traditions. We, at home, generally celebrate everything: Halloween, Christmas, Rosh Hashannah, Day of the Dead, Easter, Valentine's Day, Chinese new year, St. Patrick's Day... and obviously our special days such as Independence day, 25 de mayo, Friend's day, etc.
@@anthonyjat1964I was celebrated in Britain too not just ireland
It is also MY FAV TIME OF THE YEAR 😊😊
I saw zombies and spirits
hallowee
Give me Halloween over Thanksgiving to me it's a better time of giving thanks and helping the poor
wolfweight69 dumbass
Halloween is a interesting season me personally like Christmas more but for me Halloween wasn’t that bad , it just need more songs like 3 Day Before Halloween and Halloween Night that songs could be unique shame it was ever be made . But Lantern And ghost was my favorite part of the Halloween in Halloween history part .
So even if our intentions is pure(which is just to have fun, and to "spook around"), is it still demonic???
Last time i checked, eating loads of candy and scaring people didn't warrant eternal damnation; diabetees perhaps, but not a dip in the lake of fire🔥Happy Halloween, have fun!
@@prodigy1445 but excess candy does give you diabeetus
Nope. Only way you would be demonic is if you were summoning demons to kill people. If not then you're good.
I was always obsessed with Halloween for some reason since I was young and still am. Now I practice witchcraft and study spirituality it is very fulfilling I am very drawn to it all it makes so much sense now!
Ya. How. Bout. Haunted. Houses