Scary Fun
Some of my neighbors started to prepare for Halloween a month in advance by decorating their front yards with scary creatures, tombstones and with carved pumpkins that light up at night.
Turns out that the tradition has to do with a 2000 year old superstition practiced by the Celts, in Europe, for the holiday Samhain, which fell on the night before the new year, October 31st, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. On this day, people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. They thought that the Druids or Celtic Priests will have an easier way to communicate with spirits to make predictions for the future. Of course, over the many years, the holiday evolved into the fun event celebrated by children and adults and has nothing scary about it, unless you are watching Halloween horror movies.
It is also an opportunity to photograph some of the “scary” creatures.
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