Halloween Believe it or not…

The holiday has been around for about 6000 years and it is believed to have originated around 4000 B.C. in Ireland.

Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival of “Samhain” – the celebration of the end of harvest season. Back then, the Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead got a little blurry and the dead would come back to life and wreak havoc among the living. One way to scare the dead? Wear costumes and masks.

Candy Anyone?

Out of the $6.9 billion spent annually in the US alone, $2.08 billion are spent on Halloween candy. How many sweet treats can you buy with that money? Roughly 600 million pounds.

Oh.. and you (probably) spelled it wrong all along.

so did we… The correct spelling of Halloween is actually Hallowe’en.

 

Happy Hallowe’en!