| Halloween day is not just like any other festival. Being | | | | and vampires. We cannot forget the ever present |
| based on both Christian and Celtic rites, the festival | | | | Jack-o-lanterns and Pumpkin here. Modern day |
| tries to bring the ancient and the modern together. For | | | | themes like candy man, ice man etc Santa Claus etc |
| the Celts, the day was an occasion for butchering | | | | are also widely accepted as Halloween Day dresses. |
| animals and preserving the meat for harsh winters. | | | | Our kids also immensely like cartoon characters like |
| These people believed that on October 31 every year, | | | | Spiderman, Superman and Batman. Costumes |
| the difference between the dead and the living | | | | moulded like trees, insects, fruits, vegetables etc are |
| dissolved and the dead may become deadly to us on | | | | also in vogue. |
| that day. Halloween day was envisioned by Celts as | | | | Some kids prefer to jack up their Halloween day |
| an occasion to pacify the raging spirits. | | | | costumes with accessories like wigs, beards etc. |
| Christianity changed the way the festival was | | | | Another trend noticed in the recent past is that some |
| celebrated. Now, people, especially kids, dress up in all | | | | of our girl children prefer to dress themselves up as |
| imaginable costumes and dance around bonfires. | | | | modern TV characters like Hannah Montana, Shrek |
| Needless to say, most costumes for the occasion are | | | | etc, while boys go for costumes of pirates, convicts |
| designed to look like evil spirits and apparitions. | | | | etc. All these different costumes have given |
| The present day Halloween dresses for kids resemble | | | | Halloween day celebrations a secular look and feel |
| repelling natural characters like crows, owls, bats, | | | | now. |
| spiders, etc and supernatural ones like ghosts, demons | | | | |