兩千五百年前，居住在大不列顛的居爾特人，他們相信世
人的生活是由神明所主宰的。相信死亡之神 Samhain在１０月
３１日的夜晚會和逝者一起重返人間，這天居爾特人燃起大火
，焚燒動物以作為給死亡之神的獻禮。有些居爾特人用動物的
頭或皮毛做成的服飾打扮自己，就是今天歐美萬聖節化粧舞會
的由來。死亡之神的夜晚，是令人驚駭的時刻，象徵冬天的來
臨，這就是萬聖節前夕的初始。今天歐美國家慶祝萬聖節，宗
教的意義轉薄，經由現代創新又求變的化裝舞會，傳遞出對萬
聖節的緬懷。
２500 years ago,the Celts living in the Great Bri-
tain believed that human is mastered by gods.They also
believed that Samhain,the death god,would come back to
the earthly world with the dead at the night on octob-
er 3l.The Celts built bonfires and fired animals as s-
acrificial offerings to the death god. Some Celts were
dressed in costumes made from animal heads or furs, w-
hich was the origin of contemporary Halloween masquer-
ade.The night of the death god was a horrifying time
that signified the coming of winter and was the begin-
ning of Halloween eve. Today, the religious meaning of
Halloween has been weaken;instead，the holiday expres-
ses man's cherishing memory of Halloween via innovati-
ve,ever-changing modern masquerade.
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