When is Halloween 2019 and what day of the week does it fall on?
HALLOWEEN is the best time year - pumpkins, sweets, spookiness and scary costumes... what more could you ask for?
Halloween falls every year on October 31, which this year is a Thursday.
Halloween activities typically involve trick or treating, dressing up in fancy dress and carving pumpkins.
- The word Halloween comes from Hallowe’en, meaning “hallowed evening” or holy evening.
- The word itself is a Scottish term for All Hallows Eve - the evening before All Saints' Day.
- It is widely thought that Halloween traditions came from Celtic harvest festivals of Samhain, although some people support the view that Halloween began independently as a Christian festival.
There are a number of ways to celebrate the festival, whether you want to go out or enjoy it from the comfort of your home.
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These include:
- playing apple bobbing
- carving pumpkins
- playing pranks
- dressing up in fancy dress at a costume party
- going trick or treating
- watching horror films
- telling scary stories
- visiting "haunted" attractions
- some Christians attend church services or host a light party
These include:
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