Dressing up in a costume for Halloween is one of the main staples of this holiday but can you believe that it started because people were trying to scare off ghosts?

Celtic society believed that during Samhain, the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year. Naturally, the still-living did not want to be possessed, so on the night of October 31st, villagers would dress up in all manor of goulish costumes and noisily paraded around the neighborhood, in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to possess.

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