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 The name Halloween can be traced back to the 1500s and is a Scottish name for ' All Hallow's Eve ' , which is the evening before All Hallows Day . Halloween is an old custom and is celebrated on October 31 every year. It has its origin in Ireland.  It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints. “Halloween began two thousand years ago in Ireland, England, and Northern France with the ancient religion of the Celts (Paganism).  They were from the beginning celebrating the end of the summer. Samhain was celebrated as the harvest season had ended and winter began 31 October. The faith of the Celts was that invisible forces were in motion, and that the souls of the dead returned to earth during the one night of Halloween. During the famine in Ireland in the 1800s took the Irish with their celebrations to the United States. *
Today it is mostly associated with americans that decorates their houses with spider web, pumpkins, witches, ghosts, lanterns and so forth. The kids,  dressed out in costumes, are running up and down the streets wanting toys or candy while yelling “Trick-or-Treat”. The day is often associated with the colors orange and black, and is strongly associated with symbols such as the jack-o’-lantern. American Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o’-lanterns, reading scary stories, and watching horror movies.  Halloween is celebrated all around the world. Not only in america. *
The concept Halloween came to Sweden back in the 1950s but it was considered a bad custom. Many people in those days were superstitious and believed it was a blasphemy. The Swedes started to celebrate Halloween in the 1990s, but it is not as popular as in the United States . It is mostly young people who celebrate Halloween and buy costumes to go to parties. Halloween became more popular during the 2000s. The Swedish Halloween celebrations can now be regarded as established , and annual sales each year approximately one billion kronor in Sweden . *
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