Halloween
is a ceremony held for the dead, It is celebrated in most of the western world
on All Souls Day.
Although All Souls Day
is a memorial for the Christian religion, Halloween seems more like a secular
practice that is well entrenched in western culture.
It is often marked by
watching horror movies, reading about ghost stories and attending mass.
In Nigeria, only
Christians and Catholics celebrate Halloween. Africans have a way of
celebrating the dead in many cultures but Halloween in the western sense is
marked mainly by Catholics in Nigeria who remember their dead relatives and
pray for their souls.
Some Nigerians watch
horror movies on Halloween day which is a day before the feast of All Saints
Day. The celebration of Halloween though not accompanied by any public holiday
has helped to spread belief in spirits and ghosts in the world.
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