Have you heard of Halloween? Do you celebrate it in Turkey?

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.:::Niko:::.

Just wanted to share (as much information as possible) with others hope u don't mind :) Please note that in Turkey, some people (mostly in the big cities) do celebrate Halloween :) it's FUN

Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).

The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.

To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities.

During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.

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yes we know it from tv. but i dont know why you celebrate it, or how this tradition started. happy halloween

Ipek K

We heard it- thanks to Hollywood :) - but it hasn't become a "tradition" to celebrate it.

Recently, kids in the kindergarten's started to do the celebrate it at school- dressing up and making up etc but it is not more than a game yet .

As far I can think of, we don't have a similar festival like it .

Tanju

Hi Lyns,

I know Halloween, but we do not celebrate it,

Good Evening ...

Thomas M

No, it's not celebrated in Turkey. There are a handful of people that will dress up and make a party out of it. Some people have picked it up from traveling to other countries, but in a whole, it is not celebrated.

istanbul bogazi

It depends on people. We used to give some costume parties during Halloween in Istanbul just for fun.
And when i was in high school we used to celebrate at school. We used to have a lot of fun.
i like Halloween. I like all festivities.

arch0049

I have been to Australia and Turkey. And, they do not "celebrate" it like we do. Kids do not go trick or treating. Some people (adults) dress up and go to the dance clubs in costume over the weekend or on Halloween night.

Iris's Lover aka Garrett O.

Well Halloween has been celebrated in the Usa since I was born. Most countries have picked it up. To my knowledge the only countries that don't celebrate it are the Bahamas.

Totally Blunt

We don't have that tradition, but we are well aware, thanks to all the American movies and children's cartoon films. :)))

Ñ”Ñƒâ„“Ã¼â„“

i guess most of us know it
turkey wise people don't celebrate it but i do. i just love Halloween :D

ipek

thank you for educating us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Irmak

We know but we don't celebrate it in Turkey.

genÃ§ tÃ¼rk

No, because it is an occult anglosaxon tradition. We don't have halloween, vampires, zombies, werewolves and the like. We have cin, gulyabani, Ã§arÅŸamba karÄ±sÄ±, karabasan which are beings of a different culture and in my opinion scarier than any of your elements.

ElectroJewelz

I think everyone does

Qu'est ce que tu pense?

Yep, but I'm in the US so it doesn't really count :)
My cousins/aunts/uncles in Turkey know what it is though, but they don't celebrate it.

emiliosailez

Glad to see that this nordic, morbid, dark celebration does not exist in Turkey. It is mostly an Anglo-Saxon thing.
As for me, I prefer the Roman Saturnalia which has come down to us over the centuries as a fun, bright celebration of life re: the Carnival in Rio. Music, dance, love, gaity, laughter. Not skeletons, death, and morbidity.

carmelo_sabato

High t has it right and i like emilliosas saturnalia too i think Christianity's celebrations are stupid !

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