What's up with Eta Sigma Delta: 👻 🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃 👻

🍬 Halloween happens to be one of my favorite holidays. The costumes, the movies, candy, parties, ghost stories, and trick-or-treaters seems to add something exciting to this creepiest day of all days. Of course this is not the true meaning of Halloween, but it has been taken out of the old traditional style, and pumped up to be more fun for all that love this day, and wish to share excitement with family and friends. Today, I want to share with you the true meaning of Halloween, and some of our Sisters that enjoy having sl fun with it also.

🍬HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN

🍬Halloween is an annual holiday, celebrated each year on October 31, that has roots in age-old European traditions. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints; soon, All Saints Day incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was known as All Hallows Eve, and later Halloween. Over time, Halloween evolved into a day of activities like trick-or-treating and carving jack-o-lanterns. Around the world, as days grow shorter and nights get colder, people continue to usher in the season with gatherings, costumes and sweet treats.

🍬This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.

🍬In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.

🍬To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other’s fortunes.

🍬When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.

🍬Eta Sigma Delta SL Sorority Is Here To Wish Everyone A Happy And Safe Halloween ~~~~~~~ Have Fun 🎃

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