what is halloween of original? help!?
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Halloween\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n\nThis article is about the holiday. For other uses, see Halloween (disambiguation). \nHalloween \n \nA jack-o'-lantern \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \nAlso called Hallowe'en, All Hallows Eve, All Saints' Eve, Samhain, Spooky Day, Snap-Apple Night \nObserved by Many Western nations, including the USA, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Canada, sometimes Australia and New Zealand \nType Pagan, Religious, Cultural (celebrated mostly irrespective of religion) \nSignificance There are many sources of the significance of Halloween \nDate October 31 \nCelebrations Trick-or-treating, Bobbing for apples, Costume parties, Carving jack-o'-lanterns \nHalloween is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets, fruit, and other treats. Apart from this trick-or-treating, there are many other traditional Halloween activities. Some of these include costume parties, watching horror films, going to "haunted" houses, and traditional autumn activities such as hayrides, some of these even "haunted". A more complete coverage of Hallowen customs can be found at Halloween traditions.\n\nHalloween originated as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain with Irish, Scots, Welsh and other immigrants transporting versions of the tradition to North America in the 19th century. Most other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late 20th century.\n\nHalloween is celebrated in most parts of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and with increasing popularity in Australia and New Zealand, as well as the Philippines. In recent years, Halloween has also been celebrated in parts of Western Europe, such as Belgium, France and Spain.\n\nThe term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening before "All Hallows' Day"[1] (also known as "All Saints' Day"). The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints Day from May 13 to November 1. In Ireland, the name was All Hallows' Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve), and though seldom used today, it is still a well-accepted label. The festival is also known as Samhain or Oíche Shamhna to the Irish, Calan Gaeaf to the Welsh, Allantide to the Cornish and Hop-tu-Naa to the Manx. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit.\n\nMany European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when spirits can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent (e.g. Catalan mythology about witches, Irish tales of the Sídhe).
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The Exorcist or the original The Shinning are the best horrors I think. House Of A 1000 Corpses is the best modern horror for me. There will be a new Halloween 'Micheal Myers' coming out next October made by the same guy who made House of a 1000 Corpses. That'll be good, I'm willing to bet.
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I live for Horror Movies! Halloweens my favorite holiday!
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A state or or another country theme (china and chinese food and decorations like lanterns, or england and ummm..skip the food for england) depending on where you live or where you'd like to visit.  You can get decorations at any party store.  A fav of mine is a dark themed party where everyone is a vampire or a zombie or mummy.  I'm from Canada and I think I'd like to do an Egyptian theme  or an Alaskan one. Oh, and thanks for the points.
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Halloween originated as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain with Irish, Scots, Welsh and other immigrants transporting versions of the tradition to North America in the 19th century. Most other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late 20th century.\n\nThe term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening before "All Hallows' Day" (also known as "All Saints' Day"). The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints Day from May 13 to November 1. In Ireland, the name was All Hallows' Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve), and though seldom used today, it is still a well-accepted label.
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a dead ballerina...as a dancer i have many old costumes that i can put fake blood on and go out looking all zombie and creepy like...yay for halloween! if i don't go as that though, i would like to go as bettie page..
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They are already making a Jason or Freddy movie, I forget which (I think Jason) but they will contiue to make them as long as people keep seeing them.  I even heard they were gonna do a Ash (Evil Dead vs. Freddy movie.)  Who knows.  Rob Zombie is making a Halloween.
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The Irish brought the tradition of the Jack O'Lantern to America. The original Jack O'Lantern was not a pumpkin. The legend goes back hundreds of years in Irish History.\nJack O'lanterns weren’t always Pumpkin , and Halloween wasn’t always Halloween. This celebration began as a pagan festival called Samhain, when Celts would walk around with various root vegetable lanterns to guide the roaming dead to the next world. They also carved spooky faces into them (the lanterns, not the dead) to keep malignant spirits away.
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Halloween because I get to dress up and be someone else!  Oh, and I get candy!
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halloween - and if you have not seen it - go get it - sit in a house when no one is home - then when it is night - close the lights and watch - i bet you turn the lights on, stop the movie and head to a friend's house.\n\nAnd remember "Black Eyes"\n\nPS - texas chainsaw massacre (original) and last house on the left are very very raw flicks - and leave a very creepy feeling in your bones - halloween can happen in your town...
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Halloween.\nHalloween 2\nHalloween 3 - Season of the Witch\nHalloween 4 - The Return of Michael Myers\nHalloween 5 - The Revenge of Michael Myers\nHalloween 6 - The Curse of Michael Myers\nHalloween 7 - H20 (the 20th anniversary)\nHalloween 8 - The Ressurrection\n\n\nOnly 1, 2, 7 and 8 had Jaime Lee Curtis.\nUrban legend is the mask was modelled after William Shatner.\n\n*thanks August D...didn't know about Rob Zombie doing another one...that should be interesting. Always thought the Shatner thing was urban legend..guess I was wrong. \nAnd you are right, the 3rd one had nothing to do with the series...in fact they are watching Halloween on television in one scene.\nI think H20 got a bad rap, it's a pretty good flick. But the original stands as one of the classics!
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nopperabo i think is the real name of that class of spirit.  it's from japanese folklore, actually.  it's a malicious spirit that has no face and basically tries to eat you.  for more, i suggest going to y'local bookseller for something on traditional japanese ghost stories.
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HALLOWEEN.....Michael Myers
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yes i've got a copy on my old Video 2000 along with Halloween...  that is one coooool cat
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That's not a question. If this is about it being pagan then stop worrying since Halloween is just as much inspired by All Saints Day Eve, a Christian holiday, as it is by Samhein. No that's not coincedence it's the same story as Yule and Christmas, Christianity's attempt to overshadow other religion's holidays. I celebrate both since it's basically multiple religions that try to out do each other until only secularity overcomes both.
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Halloween is my favorite holiday. I decorate the house and the yard. I have a party. I get to dress unlike myself. I look forward to it coming and have already started shopping for this year's decorations (gotta get started early since everything good and cheap goes fast).
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Halloween comes from the old pagan ceremony of Samhain