How Halloween is Celebrated in other places often times is a mystery. Lucky for us though we found someone from sweden who has written how they celebrate.
This tradition actually comes from the United States. It began almost 200 years ago. The people believed that when they were dead returned to earth on this particular evening. Is why they lit fires to ghosts flying around would find the way.
In Sweden, more and more people also started to celebrate Halloween. It's mostly kids who think it’s fun to celebrate this day. Children dressed as up as witches or ghosts, a few days in the fall. They then go around to the neighboring houses and asking for candy or making mischief. Some kids also think it’s fun to have a party. Then all dressed up as scary characters[Control], and eat candy.
The Swedes have long been celebrated All Saints Day, which is this weekend. It's a quiet weekend when many light candles on the graves and thinking of their dead relatives.
We do not really have long-standing Halloween tradition in Sweden, but for every year that passes is increased importance and more and more people choose to celebrate Halloween. Perhaps it is that we need some feast that lightens the mood in a temporal dark time of the year and often with rain and bad weather. We in Sweden have adopted the American Halloween celebration and it is a nice feature for both children and adults. Another advantage is that Halloween is not seldom occurs during the autumn break, which means that opportunities to really keep the party increases. Halloween has been celebrated in Sweden since the early 1990s and today may be called the tradition established.
What we have is celebrated All Saints Day - All Saints' Day - as a Christian holiday in memory of all the saints of the Church. All Saints do not have specific dates without incident on Saturday between October 31 and November 6 of each year.
All Saints Night happens the night before, is a Friday. Since Halloween is derived from the British Saints' celebration so there is obviously some connection, even if it still is important for the children to explain the difference between witches and saints. Often there is some confusion about this.
Anyone who has ever seen the American movie has certainly not escaped the phrase Trick or treat? In Swedish we say Trick or Treat? But the tradition is very new to us and taken directly from the Americans. On Halloween Dress kids out themselves - usually some kind of fearsome figure as witch, Dracula, mummy, wolf or ghost - and go from door to door in their neighborhood where they knock on doors and ask the question 'Trick or treat? ". If you then do not have anything to give the children - usually in the form of candy, but in recent years in some areas also money, so one must expect that they in some way, more or less, will cause trouble in one's garden or on one's facade. A typical 'trick' is to throw toilet rolls over the person's garden and let the toilet paper tangled up in everything from shrubs to trees. In the middle Ages poor people would go door to door and beg on Hallowmas that occurred on November 1, it is believed that the tradition stems from this.
Pumpkin The lantern
probably the most widely used symbol of Halloween is the pumpkin lantern which in English is called Jack Lantern. To make a Jack Lantern so it takes a big, orange pumpkin and cut out content, and eyes, a nose and a happy mouth with teeth. Then place the candle inside a pumpkin and put on the lid that you cut off the pumpkin top. Many then puts a black top hat to the pumpkin lantern will provide a more intimidating look. The content can for example make pumpkin pie and roasted pumpkin seeds. From the beginning, the British Isles, it was not pumpkins that were used to create the tiny facial lamps, but a kind of turnip which almost be described as rutabaga.
Written By: coolasyster