Next to the gift exchange giving activities in December, another exciting tradition is the Halloween costume parties and trick or treats. During this season we can see pumpkins, witches, bats, etc, for decoration. Most children’s and adults’ favorite characters to impersonating famous are witches costume or princess character roles like wearing Snow White costume, Dorothy costume, Rapunzel, Tin Man, etc.
While in their costume, they go from house to house asking for candies or treats.
To add more spookiness for this season, there are usually a “jack-o-lantern” because It is believed to be the ancient symbol of a damned soul. Americans use pumpkins instead of turnips is because when the Irish immigrated to America they could not find many turnips to carve into Jack O'Lanterns but they did find a lot of pumpkins thus making it an essential part of Halloween traditions ever since.
Originally Halloween is feared because people believed that this season has a large chance of communicating with the spirits of the dead. It was said that if a demon or such were to encounter something as fiendish looking as themselves that they'd run away in terror, thus sparing the houses dwellers from the ravages of dark entities. The jack-o-lantern is brought around the village boundaries or left outside the home to burn through the night. Black cats have religious origins as well. Black cats were considered to be reincarnated beings with the ability to divine the future. During the Middle Ages it was believed that witches could turn themselves into black cats to be in disguise.
