And what do you know about Halloween?
Autumn is endowed with a very interesting day. The whole world on the night of November 1 will celebrate Halloween. Which today is often perceived as an unserious, gaming holiday. As a reason for informal gatherings and fun carnivals. For us, this is a reason to diversify your year. For many people this is interesting, fun and funny.
I know a lot of facts about this holiday. There are good and bad. But I am a positive person. I do not want to write about the bad. After all, one of the pledges of our good health. This is a good mood.
Halloween is the most commercially profitable holiday after Christmas. How successful? Halloween is a $ 6 billion revenue generating industry annually.
According to the Irish legend, the festive flashlight Jack O’Lantern is named after a miserly man named Jack. Which due to the fact that he deceived the devil many times. It was forbidden to go to heaven and hell. He was doomed to roam the Earth, waving his flashlight to lead people astray.
It is believed that Halloween appeared around 4000 BC. This means that Halloween has been around for more than 6000 years. He was brought to North America by immigrants from Europe. Who celebrated the harvest festival around the fire. Telling each other ghost stories, singing songs, dancing and making fortune telling. In the UK, Jack's lanterns are traditionally made from turnips. Due to the fact that turnip was quite expensive, Americans used pumpkins.
And now they have such things as massive pumpkin carving. Which is a popular Guinness world record. Halloween enthusiasts from Highwood, Illinois broke the record in 2011. They simultaneously lit 30,919 Jack Lights.
Another amazing record that concerns the good old Jack Luminaire. The record is that according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The fastest time for which someone cut a face in a pumpkin is 20.1 seconds. This record was set by David Finkle from the UK. He accomplished his feat on October 7, 2010. During the filming of the Halloween show for the BBC channel.
And what do you know about this very unusual holiday? :)