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Hop Tu Naa | A Brief History




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A Brief History of Halloween

Its origins date back to a Celtic festival called Samhain. The Celts would celebrate the beginning of the new year on November 1st. On the last evening of the year, October 31st, they believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to the earth. These ghosts roamed the world, causing damage to crops and performing other mischief, as they searched for living bodies to possess.

The living were not keen to have their bodies inhabited by these ghosts, so on that night they would dress in scary costumes and parade the town, hoping to frighten the spirits away and make it to the morning unscathed.

After the Celtic land was taken over by the Romans, Samhain was merged with two Roman holidays. Feralia was a day in October to commemorate the passing of the dead and Pomona was a day to celebrate the goddess of fruit and trees. (The symbol of Pomona was an apple, which may explain the adoption of the Halloween tradition of bobbing for apples.)

Source: EZINE Articles


"Hop tu naa,
My mother's gone away.
And she won't be back until the morning.

Ginny the Witch flew over the house
To catch a stick to lather the mouse.

Hop tu naa,
My mother's gone away.
And she won't be back until the morning."

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Histories, Raleigh, NC. I really want to go back and shoot this location again..

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