Understanding the History of Halloween : Roman Traditions in Halloween History

Romans are important in the history of Halloween, get expert tips and advice on the Halloween history in this free video.

Expert: Ginny Larson
Bio: Ginny Larson has been creating fun, inexpensive crafts for her own pleasure for the past thirty years. She loves being creative and making charming pieces from ordinary things.
Filmmaker: Terry Larson

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• history
• halloween
• holidays
• hobgoblins
• witches
• ghosts
• all
• hallows
• eve

[Anie7722]

I often wondered about the Jack o Lantern. This video is very enlightening. Now I now what thie Jack 0 Lantern symbol is all about. Although Halloween is my birthday, I still never bothered to lean too much about it.

[BoyintheMachine]

Yes, the Norse had festival for the elves in the autumn. However, Halloween can be traced back to the celtic festival of Samhain and not to Alfablot, or Elven Blot of the Norse.

[SwedishWolf93]

but the celts hand after that allso the vikings had a night (todays halloween) where they belived that the spirits could come down to erth, they allso mayed sacrefises to calm the good spirits and to hunt away the evel ones, at the same time they celebrated the ending of the harvest and fertility. halloween is much older then when the irish came to america.

[BoyintheMachine]

The Romans had nothing to do with Halloween.

Halloween came to America from the Irish. The Irish were never conquered by the Romans.

[beckerclan]

Yall might want to consider putting the chapter numbers in your titles so we wont have to poke around trying to see them in order and finaly giving up.........

[whizzmaster3000]

really? i didn't know that! great vid, by the way!

[whizzmaster3000]

cool, i can comment twice!