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On the night of November 1 of this year, and after celebrating the chestnut tree with some friends from Aiguafreda, in Osona, when the party ended and I went home I was about to attack a spider web, along with its owner.
I realized that she also wanted to collaborate in the decoration of that night, which for better or worse we have imported.
The most terrifying night of the year is usually accompanied by terrifying costumes and decorations, where there is no shortage of fake cobwebs, but nature is very real, as seen in this photograph in La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos.
Halloween (contraction of All Hallows' evening, literally "All Hallows' Eve") is celebrated on October 31. Also known as Halloween, All Souls' Eve, All Saints' Eve, Night of the Dead, All Souls' Night or Samhain, it has been fueled and popularized by the horror films associated with this holiday.
One theory holds that many Halloween traditions may have been influenced by ancient Celtic harvest festivals, most notably the Gaelic Samhain, with pagan roots.
In the year 840, Pope Gregory IV ordered that the Feast of All Saints be celebrated universally. The evening vigil, within English culture, was then called "All Hallow's Eve", a term that eventually became "Halloween".
