A Creepy All Saints Day

I was just finished watching horror movies and I still feel shivering because the movie has good sounds and visual effects making it looks like real. And so after one month, we are again celebrating All Saints Day and there are a lot of partygoers who loved to attend a Halloween Party. Some said that this is the most treacherous period of the year, when witches and Satanists take children off the streets and sacrifice them in the name of the evil one. (Well this is what we always here when we are young to keep us leaving the house at night). 

As I reminisced my childhood days when All Saints Day is about to come and a lot of people are talking about Halloween, I began wondering where and when Halloween really came from. So I make some research about this and found out that the word Halloween was contracted form of Holy Evening and signifies to the evening of All Saints Day, when Christians conventionally remember believers of other periods who are particularly good role models of faith in which a lot of them were tortured, persecuted, and/or even died rather than to give up Christ.

So this is really not the time of horrible stuffs after all. However, since it is already in the Filipino cultures and it already a part of their so-called dangerous time of the year, it is also a time when almost all Filipinos like to be terrified. Whether it is watching horror films (as I did), listening to horrible stories, reading ghost stories, staying in the dark, going to cemetery alone or playing pranks with others, these particular stuffs really pleases the desire of every person to be terrified out of their won humors.

In the old days, telling creepy stories to young individuals was a much loved pastime during this period. I was also into this kind of stuff and I really find it very terrifying but I still want to hear those scary stories over and over again.  Definitely, there are also a lot of TV shows with regard to ghosts, creepy things and among others. Of course, since everybody enjoys being feared we will surely have a great time watching those shows. Although this may somewhat a part of All Saints Day, let us not be forgotten what is really the true meaning of this holiday.

Advance Happy Halloween!