Anonymous
10/22/2025, 8:47:56 PM
No.543670605
>>543661475
>event happens on a specific day
>the day that contains the event is called "X Day"
>the day that contains the evening before the event is called "X Eve" ("Eve" obviously being short for "Evening")
>November 1st is All Saints' Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints'_Day), also called All Hallows' Day ("hallowed" being a synonym for "sacred" or "venerated")
>The day before this can thus be called "All Hallows' Eve[ning]"
>This can be shortened to "Hallowe'en" (the apostrophe representing a contraction, such as in "it's" and "haven't")
>"So why the spooky theming?"
Probably Celtic harvest festivals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween#Gaelic_folk_influence
>Samhain marked the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or the 'darker half' of the year.It was seen as a liminal time, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld thinned. This meant the Aos Sí, the 'spirits' or 'fairies', could more easily come into this world and were particularly active.
>is it pronounced the same?
Yes
>event happens on a specific day
>the day that contains the event is called "X Day"
>the day that contains the evening before the event is called "X Eve" ("Eve" obviously being short for "Evening")
>November 1st is All Saints' Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints'_Day), also called All Hallows' Day ("hallowed" being a synonym for "sacred" or "venerated")
>The day before this can thus be called "All Hallows' Eve[ning]"
>This can be shortened to "Hallowe'en" (the apostrophe representing a contraction, such as in "it's" and "haven't")
>"So why the spooky theming?"
Probably Celtic harvest festivals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween#Gaelic_folk_influence
>Samhain marked the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or the 'darker half' of the year.It was seen as a liminal time, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld thinned. This meant the Aos Sí, the 'spirits' or 'fairies', could more easily come into this world and were particularly active.
>is it pronounced the same?
Yes