The real story of halloween This celebration began a long time ago. At the beginning where before was called the Samhain festival in Ireland. They said that this night is when the spirits could be seen with live people for this helping them not to get lost and find the light. live people had to be costume to not suffer any damage, because the channel between live people and dead people where they could be found, evil spirits also passed by. This day was celebrated on may 13, but when the pope Gregorio IV changed this pagan festival to a religious event, it moved to october 31, called this day as halloween (it means All Hallows Eve). Although this is a religious event, people over time has been changing many things, for example: decorate houses, make faces to the pumpkins and turn them into lanterns (this is common as it is a tradition brought from Ireland by the legend of Jack O'Lantern), costumes as whatever you want and can go trick-or-treating in everything houses. ...