What it’s about: Whether it’s costumes, candy, or the timeless appeal of going door-to-door threatening your neighbors, everyone loves Halloween. What started as Samhain, (pronounced “sow-in ...

And those traditions eventually made their way to America, thanks to the immigrants from Ireland and Scotland who brought Halloween to the United States in the 1800s. Pope Gregory III established ...

Not so coincidentally, the rise in popularity of Halloween in America coincides with this timeline. As Irish immigrants began to arrive en masse to the U.S. in the 19th century, they brought the ...

they brought with them the customs of Halloween. In America, these traditions transformed, eventually giving rise to the modern-day practices of carving pumpkins (originally turnips in Ireland ...

Popular for centuries in Ireland and Scotland, Irish and Scottish immigrants brought many Halloween practices to North America in the nineteenth century, and by the late twentieth and early twenty ...

Professor Arnold said the 1970s brought mass-manufactured costumes ... A holiday with Catholic and Celtic roots comes to America Halloween itself is a combination of two holidays: All Saints ...