We celebrate Halloween on October thirty first. The name Halloween has many pronunciations this include Hallowe’en , Allhalloween , All Hallows’ Eve , and also All Saints’ Eve. The origins of Halloween are unknown but it is widely believed by many people that they originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals, particularly from the Gaelic Festival known as Samhain. This festival might have had roots from the Pagan which was Christianities name before Christianity. The people who believe this belief say that the festival of Samhain was transformed and Christianize into what we call Halloween. The other side believes that Halloween started solely as a christian holiday completely separate from any ancient festivals such as Samhain. Traditional activities that some people do on Halloween include Trick o Treating, attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack o lanterns, having bonfires, apple bobbing, fortune telling, pranking other people, visiting haunted attractions, such as haunted houses, roller coasters, etc , telling scary stories, and watching horror movies. Many Christians go to a special church service on Halloween and then they go to their dead loved ones and placing a light candle on their graves. They will sit at the graves and pray almost all night. There are two different sides to Halloween, the religious side and the commercial side.