October is about to end, so 31st October is right around the corner. For those who don’t know(hardly anyone will not know this), 31st October is celebrated as Halloween Day. Halloween is a day filled with excitement, adventure, and fun, and it is a memorable and nostalgic time for both children and adults. Most children cannot let go of that nostalgic childhood memory, and they celebrate Halloween 2024 in their adult life and pass on that merriment and fun to the upcoming generations. The day is a treat of adventure for the kids and children and a day of holiday and merriment for the adults.
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We are already in the remaining ten days of October, so Halloween 2024 is now on a countdown. Today is Saturday, the 26th of October, and Halloween falls on 31st October of every year. So now hardly five days are left before this spooky day arrives. Halloween events have already been announced in various places in the United States. Markets are filled with Halloween items like the witch, vampire masks, ghastly costumes and whatnot to prepare for the spookiest night of the year.
When is Halloween 2024?
Halloween falls on 31st October of every year. This year, in 2024, Halloween is falling on a Thursday. 31st October 2024 this year is on a Thursday. So the following Thursday will be the spookiest night of the year, with people roaming around in weird and ghastly costumes.
Why is Halloween 2024 celebrated on Thursday, 31st October?
According to some theories, Halloween evolved from the Celtic Harvest Festival of Samhain, and when Christianity came, it was named All Hallows’ Day. This event belonged to the people who resided in Ireland and some parts that are presently under Great Britain.
The Celtic Harvest Festival of Samhain, which falls around November 1, marks the end of summer and the beginning of winter. During this festival, Celts People would make bonfires to symbolise the change in season. They would gather around the bonfire, tell each other stories, and even put on costumes. The costumes that they would wear are made of animal parts from the dead animals that they sacrificed.
Eventually, what happened over the years, according to some theories, was that the Romans interfered with their traditions. Pomona and Feralia, the Roman festivals celebrated the dead and the goddess of fruits and trees. The symbol for Pomona is the apple, which is one of the reasons “bobbing apples” became a tradition for Halloween. When Christianity officially came, November 1 was decided as All Saints’ Day and November 2 as All Souls’ Day.
For these reasons, October 31st became All Hallows Evening, meaning an evening before All Saints Day or All Hallows Day, and over the years, the day transformed into Halloween. Eventually, the day, 31st of October, moved to the United States when Irish descent and British descent migrants moved to the United States. Traditions interchanged with time, and people began sharing stories of the dead on 31st October that soon changed into ghosts and ghouls stories. Costumes became mandatory on October 31st, Halloween parties became a must, and kids’ trick-or-treat adventures quickly popularised. Over these many years, these events transformed this day into a worldwide phenomenon of fun adventure, marking Halloween as one of the year’s most popular and spookiest days. Thus, Halloween 2024 will be on 31st October.
Halloween 2024 Countdown- How many days left?
Today is the 26th day of October. The 26th of October falls on a Saturday this year, and Halloween falls on the 31st of October. So this year, 31st October, a Thursday, Halloween 2024, will be celebrated in most parts of the world to remember the dead and witness the spookiest night of the year. So, Exactly 5 days are left from today, Saturday, to indulge in this fun day. People are advised to keep their costumes and kids to keep their trick-or-treat buckets ready for this annual fun night of the year.
