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Celebrating Halloween: Festival Of Pumpkins
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 2, 2012: people almost all over the world celebrated Halloween displaying scary things and making spooky places, carving pumpkins into scary figures or simply putting pumpkins at the main entrance. Children went for ‘treat-or-trick’ on October 31: the Halloween eve. Halloween has spread so far away that it has reached even Nepal.
Some people place one or more pumpkins at the main entrance as a celebration of Halloween. The tradition is that you need to keep something scary at the entrance. Farmers grow pumpkins especially for the Halloween. Halloween pumpkins business must be of millions of dollars if not billions. Most of the pumpkins go to garbage after the festival.
How the Halloween has started, ‘The Costco Connection’ of October 2012 has to say the following:
“The earliest origins of Halloween are thought to come from Europe stemming from the ancient Celtic pagan festival of Sahmain or summer’s end. That community celebration marked the annual harvest and the start of a new year and was held on November 1, when people believed the spirits of the dead were active. Bonfires were often lit as part of the festivities.
During the Middle Ages, some elements of this pagan celebration merged with observation of the Christian feast, and emerged with observance of the Christian feast day of All Saints of All Hallows, which was followed by All Souls Day to commemorate the dead, so the night before the festivities became known as All Hallows Eve. Or Hallow Een. Children go for small soul cakes in return for saying a prayer for the dead, probably the starting point of the modern-day trick-or-treat visits.”
'Disturbia-Halloween Costume Party' will be held at Hotel Yak and Yeti, and Durbar Marg in Kathmandu on November 2, featuring costume contest and DJ Nye Blen from France along DJs Finzok and Rabbit. A video mapping and visual concepts will be held in the Regal and Durbal Hall with four projection of creative images surrounding the hall, digital laser lights, free face painting services and music by foreign VJ and DJ according to thehimalayantimes.com.
