关于万圣节有这样一个故事。是说有一个叫杰克的爱尔兰人，因为他对钱特别吝啬，就不允许他进入天堂，而被打入地狱。但是在那里他老是捉弄魔鬼撒旦，所以被踢出地狱，罚他提着灯笼永远在人世里行走。
纽约市也特别在万圣节晚上举行巡游，让一群吸血鬼，僵尸(zombie)，女巫，科学怪人等齐齐现身，还欢迎市民到场参观，到会者不限年龄、性别，不分阶级、国籍，即使你是胆小鬼，也可加入他们的行列，来个热热闹闹的人鬼嘉年华会。
其实这些鬼怪都是人扮的，所以并不可怕，相反有些小鬼脸更非常可爱，令人置身其中，就如参加大型化装舞会一样。
在各式各样的装扮角色中，以女巫僵尸一族最多人扮演，而那些专卖万圣节用品的店铺也特别准备这类衣饰出售，以迎合大众所需；与此同时，生产商每年更会把当年大热的人物造型包括面具及衣物推出市场，务求令更多人投入西方传统节日的热潮里，如在电影<哈利波特>的小巫师造型，已是许多孩子必选的扮演角色。
格林威治村的万圣节巡游﹝Greenwich Village Halloween Parade﹞始于1973年，由一位面具工匠兼木偶演员Mr Ralph Lee发起，据说最初他带着朋友和孩童一起在邻居处游行，后来渐渐演变成整个村的大型活动，而活动中当然少不了大型木偶表演，同时，巡行的目的更希望每一个人都是参与者而不是旁观者，所以即使人们只是抱着想看热闹的心态，当你踏进村子里，很快便会被邀请参与巡行，成为他们的一份子。
纽约市的万圣节巡游每年都吸引成千上万的纽约人和游客参加，而巡游会在格林威治村﹝Greenwich Village﹞举行，各队伍约在夜晚上七时从第六大道与春天街交界﹝6th Avenue & Spring Street﹞起步，一直游行至第二十三街﹝6th Avenue & 23rdStreet﹞为止，全程大概多个小时。
无论是来自亚洲，南美，非洲，欧洲，以至中东地区的参观者，都可以把自己装扮成各式各样的人物，亦可带备简单乐器，即时演奏本土的独特音乐，融合无疆界的风土文化。可能我以前从未参加过万圣节的活动，更莫说这么精彩的巡游，所以特别觉得有新鲜感。
早于十月中，曼哈顿市已开始“闹鬼”了，在繁忙的街道上，已看见四处悬挂起万圣节的鬼怪装饰，很多百货公司也忙着把应节礼品及衣物堆放在橱窗里，吸引不少途人驻足观看，而超级市场及街市亦摆放大大小小的南瓜售卖，供市民买回家布置家园或制作南瓜灯之用，当然嘛，也有主妇烹煮南瓜作菜肴或糕饼，完全依足节庆传统。
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万圣节前夜就是"圣夜"的意思。而今天，万圣节前夜已经变成一年中最流行和最受欢迎的节日之一，许多玩家都以极大的热情来庆祝这一节日。
万圣节在10月31日，其实是赞美秋天的节日，就好像五朔节是赞美春天的节日一样。古代高卢、不列颠和爱尔兰的祭司——德鲁伊德有一个赞美秋天的盛大节日，从10月31日午夜开始，直至次日11月1日持续整整一天。
他们认为，在那天晚上他们伟大的死神——萨曼会把那年死去人的鬼魂统统召来，这些恶鬼要受到托生为畜类的惩罚。当然，只要想到这种鬼魅的聚会，就足以令当时那些头脑简单的愚民胆战心谅的了。于是他们点起冲天的篝火，并严密监视这些恶鬼。
万圣节前夜到处有女巫和鬼魂的。说法就是这么开始的。至今在欧洲某些与世隔绝的地区还有人相信这是真的。
如今在整个欧洲，人们都把万圣节前夜看作尽情玩闹、讲鬼故事和互相吓唬的好机会。于是人们不再把这节日仅仅用来赞美秋光，而是让它变成一场真正的“狂欢”。而脸谱化妆是万圣节传统节目之一。
The legend of the origin of Halloween, there are many versions, the most common view, that is before the birth of Christ from the Medieval Western Europe countries, including Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
This person called several of the Medieval Western Europe Druitt people. Druitt in the November 1 New Year, New Year's Eve, young people who set druid team, wearing all kinds of weird mask, carrying a carved radish good light (the late custom pumpkin light system, Medieval Western Europe first there is no pumpkin), they walk in the villages between.
This was actually a kind of harvest celebration; also said to be "Halloween", the legend who died that year, the eve of Halloween spirit will visit the world, said that people should be allowed to visit the ghost that the ghost of a successful harvest and to render a hearty welcome. All fire and lights, the one to frighten away the ghost, but also for the ghost light line, to guide their return.
Central Europe in the Middle Ages, there had been destroyed by the pagan history of Christianity. However, before the ritual celebration of New Year's Eve never really eliminated, but in the form of witchcraft. This is why we are Halloween, but are also left witches broom, black cat, spells and other marks.
Halloween is the "holy night" means. Today, Halloween has become the year's most popular and one of the most popular festivals, and many players with great enthusiasm to celebrate this holiday.
Halloween in the October 31, in fact, is to praise the fall festival, just like the May Day holiday in the spring as a compliment. Ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland, the priest - druid autumn a grand festival of praise, from October 31 midnight, November 1 until the next day continued all day.
In their view, their great god of death that night - Salman who will die that year summoned the ghost of all, these evil spirits are subject to care for the Livestock Health and punishment.
Of course, as long as the thought of such a gathering of ghosts, was enough to make simple-minded fools who fight heart understanding of the gallbladder. So they lit the sky of fire, and close surveillance of these evil spirits.
Halloween witches and ghosts everywhere so that was what started. Has some isolated areas in Europe who believe it is also true.
Today, throughout Europe, people enjoy the slapstick regarded as Halloween, ghost story and a good opportunity to scare each other.
So people are no longer just used to praise this Autumn Festival, but it turned into a real "Carnival." The facial makeup is the Halloween tradition of one of the programs.
¡¡¡¡Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.
¡¡¡¡Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)".
¡¡¡¡The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end".
¡¡¡¡Snap-Apple Night (1832) by Daniel Maclise.Depicts apple bobbing and divination games at a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland.
¡¡¡¡The name 'Halloween' and many of its present-day traditions derive from the Old English era.
¡¡¡¡The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before All Hallows Day.
¡¡¡¡Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra h¨¡lgena m?ssed?g, mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556.