When Halloween 2016 is celebrated: date

What date is Halloween celebrated? How is celebrated and when will this holiday in Russia? Such questions have recently been heard frequently from Russians and CIS residents. The ancient festival of the Celts is still gaining popularity with us, but every year more and more people celebrate it at home or at parties. In the article you will find answers to all questions related to the celebration of Halloween.

What is the date of the celebration of Halloween?

As in the US, as well as a number of European countries, Halloween is celebrated annually on October 31. Very soon the most gloomy and at the same time, one of the most fun days will be widely celebrated by Americans, Europeans, and more recently, and our compatriots. Halloween symbolizes not only faith in evil spirit and ghosts, but also farewell to the fall and the meeting of the long-awaited winter.

The roots of this holiday are closely related to the ancient Celtic pagan rites. Usually on the night of October 31 to November 1, everyone who celebrates Halloween, "encounters" with a huge number of werewolves, vampires and other representatives of the other world. It is important at this time to prepare tasty dishes and drinks, so as to appease all evil spirits and other evil spirits. And after the meal, you need to light a candle in a pre-prepared pumpkin to scare all "invisible ghosts" who will visit humanity once again exactly in a year. In addition to Celtic ceremonies, Halloween combines the traditions of Christianity. The roots of the holiday go back to the distant past: the attributes of this holiday resemble the festival of the Celts of Samhain, the day of the goddess Pomona and even the Day of All Saints.

When Halloween 2016 is celebrated in Russia

Just like in the States, the date of the holiday in Russia is October 31. Among Russians and residents of the CIS, Halloween is celebrated mainly by children and adolescents (for the latter a gloomy overseas holiday is another reason to have fun in the company and how to fool around). If in the countries of North America and Europe children on this day walk around the neighbor's houses and ask the owners of candy, then we usually arrange noisy fancy parties.

With great impatience October 31, expect owners of nightclubs. Every year on Halloween, huge crowds of young people gather in discotheques in thematic clothes. In Russia, in general, parties are popular, to which each participant must appear in the original carnival costume. Persons invited to the evening of Halloween, as a rule, unusually decorated - on a festive night you can see a vampire, and werewolves, and all sorts of witches!

Also it is impossible not to mention such a subculture as the Goths. For them, Halloween is a special holiday, which must certainly be held in the cemetery at night. It is here that the goth guy appoints a date to his beloved "gloomy princess"! It should be noted that in all countries of the world where Halloween is celebrated, October 31 has never been and is not a day off.