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In the 7th century Pope Boniface IV established All Saints’ Day, originally on May 13, and in the following century, perhaps in an effort to supplant the pagan holiday with a Christian observance, it was moved to November 1. The evening before All Saints’ Day became a holy, or hallowed, eve and thus Halloween. By the end of the Middle Ages, the secular and the sacred days had merged. The Reformation essentially put an end to the religious holiday among Protestants, although in Britain especially Halloween continued to be celebrated as a secular holiday. Along with other festivities, the celebration of Halloween was largely forbidden among the early American colonists, although in the 1800s there developed festivals that marked the harvest and incorporated elements of Halloween. When large numbers of immigrants, including the Irish, went to the United States beginning in the mid 19th century, they took their Halloween customs with them, and in the 20th century Halloween became one of the principal U.S. holidays, particularly among children.

In the beginning, it was a religious holiday celebrating the evening before all Saint’s day and the costume’s were used to scare off any ghosts or witches that were thought to have existed so everyone could enjoy the Hallow day. Hallow means Holy and EEN means the evening before.
So, it is actually a religious holiday that society has changed slightly–about like the way people has changed the true meaning of Christmas. If one celebrates Christmas, they are celebrating Christ!!!