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Halloween - Ghouls and Ghosts

Oooohhhhh! Spooky time coming up - 31st October! So how do you celebrate Halloween? Do you try and hide and pretend you're not in when the door bell rings? Or do see it as an occasion for a party!!

I think whenever you can get the chance to have fun and do something different, you should do! Whether you're going to be a Wicked Witch, a Gruesome Goblin or a Fiendish Frankenstein - we have the retailers to suit your needs. From your scary costume to party pieces, from wigs to pumpkins - MBM have the lot!

A few facts about Halloween. (If you're brave enough to read on!)

Halloween dates back over 2000 years to the time of the Celts who lived in Britain, it is one of the oldest celebrations in the world.

The Celts celebrated their New Year's Eve on 31st October. It was celebrated every year with a festival called Samhain (pronounced 'sow-in'), that marked the end of the "season of the sun" (i.e. Summer) and the start of "the season of darkness and cold" ( i.e. Winter). The beginning of the Celtic New Year on 1st November

The belief of The Celts was that evil spirits came along with the long hours of winter darkness. They believed that on that night, the barriers between the spirit world and our world were at their weakest meaning that spirits were most likely to 'break into' our Earth.

Bonfires were built to frighten the spirits away, and The Celts feasted and danced around them. The fires brought comfort to the souls in purgatory and people held burning straw up high and prayed for them.

This is the reason for the tradition of 'dressing up' as scary characters, it is to symbolise the 'evil spirits' of old.

Some other names by which Halloween is known:

1. The Feast of the Dead
2. The Day of the Dead
3. All Hallows Eve
4. Samhain
5. All Hallowtide