Halloween

Halloween is big here. Kids love Halloween because they can get candy anywhere. They can go from door to door, people will give them candy, even sometime people don't like Halloween. When I ask what is Halloween, I get two answers.

1. People believe that on the Halloween's day, the hell's door will be opened to let the evils out. People dress up in scary becuase they want to scare all those evil away...... But let's stop and think... when people talk about evil spirit, the pictures or images they have in their head would be scary or bloody or what ever that is not like normal people. So how come people dress up in a scary image to scare the scary creatures? What I think is like that, when I evil spirits come out, they will be everywhere. People dress up scary because they want the evil spirit confuse that they are in the same family then the evil spirit will not do anything harm to them. What do you think..... OK let's continue. When the kids come to knock on the door, surely they will get candy- trick er treat, because if they don't give them candy, the spirit will curse the house or the family... I have no comment about this.

2. People celebrate Halloween because the children love candy and Halloween is the only day that they will get candy anywhere they go.

After hearing what people told me about why is Halloween, it reminded me of Pchum Ben which Cambodia celebrate in the month of October. People believe that the Pret will be allowed to come out of hell for many days. People will bring food to the Wat- Buddhist Temple and the Monks will bless the food. Prets will search seven Wat, if they could not find any food because their descendants don't offer them, they will live in hunger for the rest of the year and they will curse their descendants for doing such thing......