Friends!

Today the world celebrates Halloween, also known as "All Saints Day". This day people decorate houses with homemade lanterns from pumpkins, wear creepy costumes, beg for candies and tell horror stories. For Ukraine, this holiday is new it is celebrated only few decades after gaining independence. Young people attend parties and kids walk through the neighborhood, asking "trick or treat?".

And our ancestors - Slavs also celebrated a holiday on this day. It was called Veles night. This day the special connection between the worlds was felt, when spirits of ancestors and future generations became inseparable.

It was believed that Veles Night - was family holiday. On this day, the spirits of ancestors allegedly visited their descendants to check how they live, give them a lesson or a bless for a good year. Traditionally, people put the candle on the windowsill, so the native soul could find his way home. On the table, they put apples, pumpkins, squash, autumn flowers.

Important role in the day paid fire. With nightfall people fueled the fire to jump through it and walk barefoot on coal. This was the way to free man from evil spirit. And they let a fire at home: if it turned out slowly, then there was a devil in the house, which had to be expel.

On this day, there were many ceremonies, I'll tell you about one of them. Often the person feels in trouble, he or she does not know what to do in a given situation. To decide their fate, our ancestors waited for Veles night, then asked for help with relatives who have died. They said: "Mom, Dad (or other relative), now you come to our world, to offer me the advice. Tell me, how can I be and than finish the job. " Then they crushed question. People believed that in this way they were able to hear an answer from loved ones in a dream and solve their trouble.

Like the old Celtic Halloween, Veles night is a time during which the most important thing is to be with family and to remember relatives who are no longer with us. In my opinion, it is important to do it as often as possible. So how would not you regard such holidays as Halloween, take a moment in order to remember without regret people who you love and loved!