Lily celebrates Halloween. For everydody Halloween is a magic instant a year. This is the story of a little girls and Halloween. Is the Saman the ancestor of Halloween? Halloween is the origin of a Celtic festival of Samain, it is the beginning of the New Year. The Celts believed that during this night the spirits can visit the living. About 3000 years ago, the celestial calendar did not end on December 31 but on October 31. This famous night represented the night of Samain. Halloween comes from an alteration of All Hallows Eve which means "the eve of all saints". How was Halloween exported to the United States? The Irish and Scots settled in the United States around the middle of the 19th century to flee the great famine and brought their customs with them. This is when the Halloween we all know became the Halloween we all know. Since then, Halloween has been celebrated all over the world. The forgotten turnip for the pumpkin? The symbol of Halloween is undoubtedly the pumpkin but before there was the turnip. Ireland, whose emblem is the clover, had a tradition of digging and carving for Halloween huge turnips with scary faces. The turnip comes from the legend of Jack Stingy who is a drunken character who defies the devil several times. At the time of his death, Satan decided to deny him access to hell. He is condemned to wander eternally in darkness between hell and heaven with a firebrand planted in a turnip. Jack comes back every year on Halloween, the day of his death. Illuminated with candles to make hideous lanterns, the turnips were placed in front of houses to scare the spirits and the returnees from the night of the dead. In the United States, turnips were gradually transformed into pumpkins, the famous cucurbitaceae found on American soil. Over time, turnips have been replaced by pumpkins that are easier to dig and carve. Children were responsible for collecting offerings for the dead and went door to door to collect their due. If someone refused, the children were allowed to play all sorts of tricks on him! Today you can find pumpkins everywhere, especially in this season because it is an autumn vegetable. So don't hesitate to take a big and beautiful one so you can decorate it yourself for Halloween. You can even preserve the flesh to make good soups.