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This year Halloween looks like it’s starting to become popular in Spain for the very first time: kids dressed-up in the streets, Halloween products on the shops, and TV commercials. Spain is a country that has always been reserved about sharing other countries’ holidays and traditions. Here we celebrate the dull Día de Todos los Santos (All Saints) and people usually visit the graves of their late relatives in the morning of the 1st of November.

The fact is that most of the people criticize these foreign traditions and they call them “American” in a derogatory manner. Probably because they just know the traditions from watching American movies, but nobody takes the little effort to sort out their origins. If they would do that, they would discover that these “American” traditions all come from Europe. In schools teachers tell the children how to get disguised and just teach them about the pumpkin carvings and witch paraphernalia, but they don’t tell them that Halloween is in fact a 2,000 year old pagan tradition called Samhain which comes from our ancestors, the Celtic druids. There is a wonderful research on the history of Halloween on this web site which we recommend if you want to know how everything started. So, nothing to do with Hollywood.